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Name: Guest Speaker Alberto Cairo: The Truth in the Story
Start: 2014-09-11T01:30:00Z

Guest Speaker Alberto Cairo: The Truth in the Story

Sep 10, 2014 · 6:30 PM
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I am delighted to have Alberto Cairo speaking for us this month. He will be speaking on what data visualization designers can learn from old news inforgraphics. It should be great.

Alberto Cairo teaches infographics and visualization at the School of Communication of the University of Miami. He's also the director of the visualization program of UM's Center for Computational Science. He has been a professor at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill [masked]), and director of infograhics at El Mundo.es (Spain,[masked]) and Editora Globo (Brazil,[masked]). He is the author of the book 'The Functional Art: An Introduction to Information Graphics and Visualization'. His website is www.thefunctionalart.com and his Twitter handle is @albertocairo

Doors at 6:30, lecture at 7. Q&A after.

I will provide pizza and drinks.

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Phuoc D.

Inspiring ideas and fun presentation.

1 · September 12, 2014
Carol C.

Fantastic presentation -- thanks again, Noah, for organizing this meetup!

1 · September 11, 2014
Joseph G.

Excellent venue and speaker.

0 · September 11, 2014
Joseph G.

Excellent venue and speaker.

0 · September 11, 2014
Joseph G.

Alberto Cairo --- strong speaker. Strong presentation. Inspiring ideas. Thank you for putting it together.

0 · September 11, 2014
Deborah G.

I had a last minute conflict and, sadly, had to miss this last night. Does anyone know if a deck will be shared? Thanks!

0 · September 11, 2014
Nelson R.

Fantastic presentation and in particular how he weaves in various disciplines (journalism, science, philosophy and art for example). For those that haven't read his book, highly recommend it. Thanks for organizing the gathering - and for the pizza!

0 · September 11, 2014
Arnold Dela C.

This was my first time attending this meetup and listening to Alberto Cairo, and I'm hooked. The slides were entertaining, insightful and well designed. The content reinforced my thoughts around visualizing data and has given more confidence to my design choices. Looking forward to reading Alberto's book and meeting other like-minded individuals.

0 · September 11, 2014
Ram Bhagavan B.

Very useful indeed, however didn’t find time to talk to recruiters.

0 · September 10, 2014
Rchard C.

My first meetup, a definite hard act to top. AO has much to say, passion for saving it and the knack of letting the connections emerge naturally through choosing the right dots

0 · September 10, 2014
Steve H.

Very good presentation. Interesting look into the strengths and weaknesses of visualizations and the importance of balancing graphics with story to convey the conclusions.

1 · September 10, 2014