Visual Trumpery
Trumpery: worthless nonsense, something that is, simultaneously, deceitful and showy. Cairo explains how to fight fake data, fake facts, fake visualization, demonstrating how choices a data-visualization designer makes have significant impact on how an audience perceives data. He shares strategies to improve rational thinking and understand probability and uncertainty as ways to fight back against a deluge of misinformation.
Alberto Cairo is the Knight Chair in Visual Journalism at the University of Miami, and director of UM’s Center for Computational Science’s Visualization program. He is an author and freelancer and permanent consultant for companies like Google and Microsoft. His visit is part of the Arts and Sciences, Science Sunday lecture series and is co-sponsored by the Advanced Computing Center for the Arts & Design.
After the lecture, from 4:00-5:00p, there will be a reception in the Ohio Staters Traditions Room.
