094  |  Uncertainty and Trumpery with Alberto Cairo

We have Alberto Cairo from the University of Miami on the show to talk about partisanship and rhetoric, visualizing uncertainty and risk, cognitive biases, and much more.

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In this episode, we have Alberto Cairo from the University of Miami on the show to talk about his newly announced lecture series on “Trumpery” and uncertainty.

Visualization and statistics promise to help people think and behave more rationally, but as we all know there is much more to fulfilling this promise than just showing “the right” graph.

With Alberto we touch upon many topics including partisanship and rhetoric, visualizing uncertainty and risk, and cognitive biases.

There is of course always much more to say on these topics, but this is a good start!

Enjoy the show.

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Data Cuisine Kosovo
Eyeo Festival
Digital Humanities & Data Journalism Symposium
The term “Trumpery”
Frankfurt’s On Bullshit
Course: Calling Bullshit in the Age of Big Data
Jessica Hullman
Paper: Hypothetical Outcome Plots Outperform Error Bars and Violin Plots for Inferences about Reliability of Variable Ordering
Book: Naked Statistics
Book: Geoff Cumming’s Understanding The New Statistics: Effect Sizes, Confidence Intervals, and Meta-Analysis (Multivariate Applications Series)
Book: Steven Sloman and Philip Fernbach’s The Knowledge Illusion: Why We Never Think Alone