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d idiosyncratic it s both an attempt to reignite my love for the craft and also my tribute to its practitioners in case you re interested here s the first draft of the opening two pages this hasn t been edited so ignore typos and ungrammatical sentences preamble on magic to live well is to cope with the ways in which life is hard while finding enough in one s life worth wanting kieran setiya one early morning in november of 2021 alex my youngest son questioned me about the apparent meaninglessness of life why are we humans here for anyway alex has been a precocious old soul since he learned to talk the week when i was working on this preamble he wrote an autobiographical poem that contained a haunting alliteration to define who he is i m a lover of darkness dragons and dreams at the time of our conversation we were both coming to terms with that darkness healing mustering our dragons for battle and rebuilding our dreams the pandemic years had been tough i remember myself thinking in silence for a moment we were in our morning commute alex sitting in the back of the car was looking out at parents and kids passing by on their way to school he was in a somber mood and i guess he wasn t expecting a quick answer from dad who s usually so aloof and introverted but my answer poured out like a torrent life i said is indeed meaningless in itself meaning isn t a predetermined thing that exists beyond ourselves and our connections to others or that we receive from imaginary higher powers meaning is something that we build by living through the myriad of little but immensely relevant events that cross our paths it emerges from paying deep attention to the joys and beauty offered by the objects creatures and people whom we love and by sharing back with them that s all there is to a good life brimming with magic alex s reply was a soft murmur i parked at school and noticed that my son was staring at a fence next to us there was movement on it alex suddenly yelled his voice a mixture of excitement and wonderment dad look songbirds indeed there they were two merry critters standing on the wire chirping at each other while ignoring the multitude below i smiled see that s what i meant that s the magic this is a book about such magic to write it i spoke with many magicians visualization designers who build meaning as a tribute to themselves or as an aid to others they make things they enjoy the process and by sharing its results they brighten the world some of these designers are old friends others are people whose work i ve found fascinating more recently they are data scientists engineers analysts humanists artists journalists and educators each with their own views about the practice my sample for this book isn t representative of anything outside of my head the designers you re about to meet are the first who came to my mind when i felt the need to rekindle my love for the design of information the craft to which i ve devoted my professional life a half joking alternative title i entertained was on the consolation of visualization as a nod to boethius s famous on the consolation of philosophy the list of people whose work i find interesting inspiring or intriguing is much longer though should i d had more pages and time i d have reached out to many more of them to seek solace this is also a book about insight not in the sense of data driven analytical insight there are plenty of books in the market about that including some i ve written myself this book is different i use the term insight in the sense of exploring who the designers i spoke with are and how they see themselves i m interested in how they shape their craft how the craft shapes them in return and how such interaction creates an ethos finally i envision this book as one link in the broader chain of historical conversations about information design and visualization it s the result of the interaction between what my interlocutors told me past readings that were brought back to memory during our chats and my reflections about both i ve ended up writing an essay in the literal sense of the term a way to essay ideas to contemplate them in a nonjudgmental manner with no expectation of reaching conclusions of inferring overarching lessons or the gods forbid the hubris of developing a coherent system of thought the philosopher joan carles mèlich calls this approach to thinking and writing the wisdom of the uncertain this the art of insight is then a wandering and not a solitary one posted by alberto cairo at 4 40 am email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest friday february 24 2023 how we lie to ourselves with charts about lgbtq issues in the past few years i ve become increasingly alarmed about how journalists cover the transgender community particularly transgender youth being interested in graphics i decided to record the following short and informal talk about a specific set of charts that i often see misused and even weaponized against one of the most vulnerable minorities in this country jon schwabish has also written about one of them note i recorded this in 15 minutes this morning after a friend was contacted by a large news organization asking about several things this chart among them instead of writing a long answer i quickly recorded a video for her so she could share it that explains the just ok quality you can download the slides here posted by alberto cairo at 8 28 am email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels how charts lie wednesday february 22 2023 visualization thought leaders don t know much i m working on the chapter of the art of insight about propublica s lena groeger here s the first rough draft of the opening paragraphs in the fall of 2014 lena groeger the graphics director at propublica emailed me to ask about a project she was working on it was a visualization of the compensation that u s workers receive for damaged body parts the amount depends on the state where the worker is lena wanted my opinion about using a little person that represents each state and size each body part according to difference from the national average my reaction was quick and visceral i replied that i wouldn t do it because it looked creepy and her illustrations sent shivers down my spine instead i recommended to use traditional maps and graphs lena is a wise journalist and designer so she chose to ignore me the result was one of the most widely read graphics she s ever created it was picked up by multiple news organizations gawker linked to it with the title how much are your balls worth and led to discussions about policy in several states think about this anecdote whenever visualization thought leaders i ve always rejected that label as it really sends shivers down my spine claim to know what we re talking about posted by alberto cairo at 6 48 am email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels the art of insight monday february 20 2023 sociopathic journalism a week ago a large number of new york times contributors and tens of thousands of their readers signed an open letter criticizing the newspaper s coverage of youth gender affirming care i was among them i ve written about these matters in the past here and here and i ll likely keep doing so in the future i ve also argued that some reporters covering this care don t know how to reason under uncertainty or they pretend not to know the times s response to the letter was not only tone deaf but also a perfect example of a common malady in journalism a certain sociopathic temperament some cases of this malady are acute there are people who have built lucrative careers out of seeding doubt and muddling the waters shame on them one of the challenges with journalism is that its ethical codes rely too much on deontological and virtue ethics tropes and too little on consequentialist thinking in j school we are taught the conventions and rules of the trade and we re encouraged to become virtuous first amendment warriors and truth tellers however we re taught too little about the complexities of the very word truth or about how our truth telling is extremely selective or about how it can negatively impact those whom we write about proper applied ethics requires a careful balancing of those three moral reasoning strands journalism can learn a thing or two from design ethics think of news stories as tools that mediate between the complex world out there and the minds of readers whoever writes a news story should be at a minimum partially responsible for how that story is used or misused and we know that the inaccurate and sensationalistic coverage of gender affirming care is being weaponized for instance some profoundly biased pieces that have appeared in the new york times and other publications have been used to support arguments to deprive people of care they need that s the core of the letter s criticism reporters and their editors must do some soul searching it s way past due they are fueling a moral panic instead the times has doubled down which isn t that surprising as elite journalism isn t just often sociopathic but also hubristic and brazen joyce carol oates has accurately described it mainstream media seizes upon highly atypical microscopic samples of an issue that affects virtually no one amplifies it maniacally continues to focus upon it as if it were some sort of threat to the commonwealth not an amplified paranoid figment of media imagination the onion has a poignant and fierce piece about this topic if you teach news ethics i suggest that you add it to your recommended readings list anyway this week i ve been working on the chapter of the art of insight about alyssa fowers who i think represents a much better type of journalist alyssa has a wonderful blog and is also a graphics editor at the washington post here are a few paragraphs too often in my journalism career i ve seen reporters who don t think much about the impact that their reporting might have in the people they cover they treat them as subjects numbers things to be explored analyzed understood in a detached statistical sanitized manner recently i m writing this in early 2023 we re witnessing this sociopathic behavior in the way that mainstream media covers transgender people particularly transgender youth their access to gender affirming care and their increasing presence and visibility in society these topics are often framed as a sensationalistic debate or a controversy and not as what they truly are human rights this is insulting demeaning and dehumanizing i d say that it s also the opposite of alyssa s approach i think that she s representative of a generation of journalists who try not only to get their data right and to present it as accurately and fairly as possible but who are also emotionally invested in their stories theirs is a journalism that transgresses dusty notions of journalistic objectivity and that as a result becomes better more humane a story that alyssa contributed to which describes how the covid pandemic worsened the mental health of transgender people showcased elegant variations of sankey diagrams and bar graphs but its focus isn t these graphics or the numbers behind them to me the writing and visual style signal a profound empathy towards the people whose lives are being written about and visualized essayist rebecca solnit once wrote that empathy is first of all an act of imagination a storyteller s art because it consists of imagining ourselves in somebody else s place maybe that should be a requirement to all who gather analyze visualize or write about data about other human beings posted by alberto cairo at 6 14 am email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels the art of insight thursday january 12 2023 a sneak peek of the art of insight i ve just finished the first draft of 2 5 of the art of insight this week i ll be sending it to some friends to get some feedback i printed it out to edit it myself the book will be launched late in november this year here s a short video posted by alberto cairo at 11 37 am email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels the art of insight friday december 30 2022 quotes in the art of insight all my books contain quotes prefacing sections and chapters these quotes are deliberately chosen to be connected to the themes i write about or to subtly hint things without saying them explicitly below i ve collected the quotes in the first third of the art of insight which i m finishing these days take advice to ditch all adverbs lightly ursula k le guin enjoy and have others enjoy without doing harm to yourself or anyone else that is all there is to morality nicolas chamfort i have sought only reasons to transcend our darkest nihilism not i would add through virtue nor because of some rare elevation of the spirit but from an instinctive fidelity to a light in which i was born and in which for thousands of years men have learned to welcome life even in suffering albert camus being a person is not a goal that can be achieved but a purpose to be sustained martin hägglund it is not doctrines that console us in the end but people their example their singularity their courage and steadfastness their being with us when we need them the most in dark times nothing so abstract as faith in history progress salvation or revolution will do us much good these are doctrines it is people we need people whose examples show us what it means to go on to keep going despite everything michael ignatieff the lover of life s not a sinner black sabbath to live well is to cope with the ways in which life is hard while finding enough in one s life worth wanting kieran setiya there are three rules for writing the novel unfortunately no one knows what they are popularly and probably posthumously attributed to somerset maugham there are no absolute truths there is nothing good bad true beautiful or just in itself but only relatively evaluated according to a clear and distinct plan think in terms of action and base your actions on the effects they will have michel onfray the word normal uses a power as old as aristotle to bridge the fact value distinction whispering in your ear that what is normal is also right ian hacking there s a difference between defining beauty and defining what beauty does in the body the latter question belongs to the realm of aesthetics the study of bodies in proximity to beauty chloé cooper jones to cultivate the diverse elements of our existence means to nurture them as we would a garden just as a garden needs to be protected tended and cared for so do ethical integrity focused awareness and understanding there is no room for complacency for they all bear a tag that declares cultivate me stephen batchelor trees fall with spectacular crashes but planting is silent and growth is invisible richard powers we are ready to question the 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