Tag Archives: Alberto Cairo

Understanding Infographics, First Pass 1

As promised in a previous post on learning information graphics (sometimes shortened to “infographics”), I’m posting my raw notes from Day 1 of an information graphics workshop taught last month by Alberto Cairo and Xaquin G.V., two leading practitioners.

Above, Alberto Cairo teaches a data visualization seminar at Medialab-Prado in Madrid in 2007.
Xaquin wrote [...]

Categories: Data + Graphics, General Journalism

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Published:
February 11, 2009 – 6:00 am
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By Chrys

Easing Your Way Into Infographics 0

For weeks, I’ve been trying to figure out the best way to put my notes from the “Creating Effective Online Infographics” workshop here on Ricochet.
I started looking at examples from some of my favorite information graphics and visualization blogs, including FlowingData, Cool Infographics and Infographics News.
The more I looked, the more I realized there was [...]

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Published:
February 8, 2009 – 1:27 pm
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By Chrys

Alberto Cairo Has a Monster Reading List 1

Day One of the Beyond Bootcamp information graphics workshop taught by Alberto Cairo and Xaquin G.V. has been much less scary than I’d first thought.
Cairo’s lecture has been a model of organized thought and progressive structure, which should come as no surprise to anyone, given the nature of his work.
What’s also obvious is that the [...]

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Published:
January 9, 2009 – 12:44 pm
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By Chrys