Top 11 Alberto Cairo Quotes
#1. The life of a visual communicator should be one of systematic and exciting intellectual chaos.
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#2. The complexity of a subject, if crucial for understanding the story, needs to be shown in the visualisation. Thus, in many cases, clarifying a subject requires increasing the amount of information, not reducing it.
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#3. In a time when society is drowning in tsunamis of misinformation, it is possible to change the world for the better if we repeat the truth often and loud enough.
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#4. between the beginning of time and 2003, humanity generated roughly five exabytes of data, whereas we now produce the same volume of bits every two days.
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#5. Perception is a fantasy that coincides with reality. - Christ Firth, from Making Up the Mind: How the Brain Creates Our Mental World
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#6. visualization is not something that happens on a page or on a screen; it happens in the mind
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#7. When you can admit that you don't know, you are more likely to ask the questions that will enable you to learn. - Richard Saul Wurman, from Information Anxiety 2
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#8. graphics should not simplify messages. They should clarify them, highlight trends, uncover patterns, and reveal realities not visible before.
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#9. Sometimes, it is not you who finds good ideas when you are seeking them. Instead, good ideas find you in the most unexpected circumstances.
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#10. A data visualization should only be beautiful when beauty can promote understanding in some way without undermining it in another. Is beauty sometimes useful? Certainly. Is beauty always useful? Certainly not.
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#11. It is in the combination of words and visuals that the magic of understanding often happens.
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