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Alberto Cairo @albertocairo@vis.social

Chartmaker, www.thefunctionalart.com

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Hi everyone, in case you are interested, we have a FREE symposium coming up. It's called Data Intersections http://www.thefunctionalart.com/2018/01/our-new-conference-data-intersections.html You could use that excuse to spend a short vacation in Miami! https://vis.social/media/M6tr_YdKubjAfNuwEFQ

New post: WeePeople: A font made of human silhouettes http://www.thefunctionalart.com/2018/01/weepeople-font-made-of-human-silhouettes.html #dataviz #infographics #ddj https://vis.social/media/x59UYMIqwoEsMIKTUmA

I've found the origin of the term “graphicacy”, which I've been using in recent presentations: It was apparently coined by geographer W.G.V. Balchin in a 1972 address to the annual conference of the Geographical Association http://www.jstor.org.access.library.miami.edu/stable/40567805?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents https://vis.social/media/ksaOqPSmg7O8533vhb4

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