Alberto Cairo
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Alberto Cairo | |
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| Born | 17 June 1974  A Coruña |
| Occupation | University teacher |
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| Website | http://albertocairo.com/ |
Alberto Cairo is the Knight Chair in Visual Journalism at the School of Communication of the University of Miami.[1] He holds a BA in Journalism (from the University of Santiago de Compostela) and MA and PhD from the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (in Barcelona).[1]
Cairo worked as a data-journalist and information designer at El Mundo, Spain's second largest printed daily newspaper, and he was the director for Infographics and Multimedia at Editora Globo in Brazil.[2] He is author of The Functional Art: an Introduction to Information Graphics and Visualization'" (2012) and "The Truthful Art: Data, Charts, and Maps for Communication" (2016).
He teaches courses on information graphics and visualization to journalism students.[3] He also publishes his work on Twitter[4] and his personal blog.[5]
References
- ^ a b "Profile of Alberto Cairo at the School of Communication of the University of Miami".
- ^ "Profile of Alberto Cairo on his personal web page".
- ^ Interview with Alberto Cairo Exploring The World With Infographics & Data Visualizations, retrieved 2015-09-27
- ^ "Twitter account of Alberto Cairo".
- ^ "Weblog of Alberto Cairo – The Functional Art".