Alberto Cairo

@albertocairo

Knight Chair at the University of Miami. Author of 'The Truthful Art' (2016), and 'The Functional Art' (2012)

USA, Brazil, Spain
Joined April 2009

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  1. “When statistics is used as a substitute for, rather than an adjunct to, scientific measurement, we get problems”

  2. conference to explore intersection of data and humanities

  3. Just said in a tutorial I recorded: “Now, just to troll my designer friends, I'm going to change the title font to Comic Sans”

  4. This got 2,000+ retweets. has responded to some moronic comments (pic)

  5. Digital humanities + Data journalism. A symposium for collab and a nice speaker lineup in Miami

  6. Check out the schedule for the Digital Humanities + Data Journalism Symposium in Miami:

  7. New, bold experiments to come from alumni w/ challenge fund in honor of Jim Bettinger :

  8. : University of Miami Digital Humanities+Data Journalism Symposium

  9. +1,000 "Data journalism is empirical social science on deadline"

  10. The two drought maps. Blog with process and sources upon my return to civilization. (the fun stuff)

  11. Great lineup at the Data Journalism Symposium at UM. Hope I can make it.

  12. If you are a human data journalist and feeling digital, then you will probably like the speakers list of

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