Info We Trust: How to Create Value with Data Graphics (Remastered E-Book Edition)

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Overview

Info We Trust is an illuminating journey through the world of data storytelling.

Each chapter weaves a rich tapestry of insights, combining text and imagery to trace the evolution of data graphics from simple products of civilization to potent instruments of persuasion.

With a storyteller’s flair, RJ Andrews navigates narrative artistry and scientific inquiry to get at the heart of information design: creating meaning from space, time, and beyond.

Featuring hundreds of hand-drawn illustrations and dotted with fascinating marginalia, Info We Trust is a visual feast that captures the essence and excitement of data storytelling.

E-Book Details
File format: Fixed layout PDF
By RJ Andrews
240 pages
March 2025 Publication
ISBN: 979-8-9861945-4-7

Contents
The prehistoric tree-spirits of information and trust preface our story in Ancient Roots.

At our ORIGIN; data, story, and the adventures ahead are introduced. Numbers and where they come from are established before we arrange data into forms we can read.
0. The Goal of Our Craft
1. Data Shadows
2. Information Murmurs

A METAPHORICAL understanding of the world anchors our transformation of data to stories. How we experience space and time helps us build grids and other homes for data. We then fill these homes with meaning.
3. Embodied Encoding
4. Counting Time
5. World Building
6. Infuse Meaning
7. True Colors

A MATHEMAGICAL search for comparisons and patterns is boosted by translation and transformation techniques, all in the pursuit of truthfulness.
8. Explore to Create
9. Create to Explore
10. Uncertain Honesty

A SENSATIONAL intermission enriches appreciation for how humans learn through experiences, narratives, images, emotions, and explanations.
11. Information Arts

An INFORMATIONAL study of the goals, methods, and daily practice of data storytelling craftwork.
12. Inspire Trust
13. Imagination To Image
14. Focus Attention
15. Creative Routines

Our finale Beautiful Tomorrow encourages the ONWARD creation of new shared understanding.