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    Doug Caldwell
    • Jan 24
    • 5 min

    Book Review: How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter about Visual Information, by Alberto Cairo

    Instead of just looking at charts, as if they were mere illustrations, we must learn to read them and interpret them correctly. Alberto...

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    Doug Caldwell
    • Nov 24, 2021
    • 4 min

    Book Review: How to Lie with Statistics, by Darrell Huff

    If you can’t prove what you want to prove, demonstrate something else and pretend that they are the same thing. In the daze that follows...

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    Doug Caldwell
    • Sep 13, 2021
    • 4 min

    Book Review: The Data Detective: Ten Easy Rules to Make Sense of Statistics, by Tim Harford

    Good statistics are like a telescope for an astronomer, a microscope for a bacteriologist, or an X-ray for a radiologist. If we are...

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    Doug Caldwell
    • Jun 10, 2021
    • 5 min

    Book Review: Visualizing with Text, by Richard Brath

    Visualizing with Text (2020), by Richard Brath (Partner at Uncharted Software, Inc.) is an intriguing addition to the data visualization...

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    Doug Caldwell
    • Apr 20, 2021
    • 5 min

    Book Review: Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men, by Caroline Criado Perez

    One of the most important things to say about the gender data gap is that it is not generally malicious, or even deliberate. Quite the...

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    Doug Caldwell
    • Mar 16, 2021
    • 4 min

    Book Review: Better Data Visualizations, by Jonathan Schwabish

    Better Data Visualizations: A Guide for Scholars, Researchers, and Wonks (2021), by Jonathan Schwabish (Senior Fellow at the Urban...

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