Kaiser Fung has published the first review of 'How Charts Lie'. I'm happy that people are reading beyond the intentionally provocative title, and getting what the book is truly about: it's certainly about how charts can deceive and how we lie to ourselves with them, but it's more about how anyone can become a more attentive and informed chart reader:
Few of us learned how to create charts from first principles. No one taught us about axes, tick marks, gridlines, or color coding in science or math class. There is a famous book in our field called The Grammar of Graphics, by Leland Wilkinson, but it’s not a For Dummies book. This void is now filled by Alberto Cairo’s soon-to-appear new book, titled How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter about Visual Information.Finally, here are some early blurbs by best-selling authors: