Participants in this year’s Visual Discovery Conference include:

Alberto Cairo, PhD • albertocairo.com

Alberto Cairo is a journalist and designer with many years of experience leading graphics and visualization teams in several countries. He joined the School of Communication in January 2012. As an associate professor and the Knight Chair in Visual Journalism, he teaches courses on infographics and data visualization. He is also director of the Visualization research focus area at UM’s Frost Institute for Data Science and Computing, and a Faculty Fellow at the Abess Center for Ecosystem Science and Policy.

Cairo has been described by Microsoft as always “in the vanguard of visual journalism”. He is the author of four books:

• The Art of Insight: How Great Visualization Designers Think (Wiley 2023)
• How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter About Visual Information (W.W. Norton 2019)
• The Truthful Art: Data, Charts, and Maps for Communication(Peachpit Press 2016)
• The Functional Art: an Introduction to Information Graphics and Visualization (Peachpit Press 2012)

Cairo has a popular visualization weblog, http://www.thefunctionalart.com/, and his “X” account, https://twitter.com/AlbertoCairo, is followed by more than 67,500 people interested in visualization and data journalism.  Read more . . .