Alberto Cairo
Spanish journalist, now at University of Miami
About Alberto Cairo
Born 1974. Alberto Cairo is a Spanish journalist, university teacher and designer.
Alberto Cairo (born 1974 in A Coruña) is a Spanish information designer and professor. Cairo is the Knight Chair in Visual Journalism at the School of Communication of the University of Miami. It would end up inspiring the creation of the Datasaurus dozen.
Books The Functional Art: an Introduction to Information Graphics and Visualization (2012)
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Spanish journalist, now at University of Miami
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Alberto Cairo was born on 17 June 1974 in A Coruña.
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Alberto Cairo is a journalist, university teacher and designer.
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Alberto Cairo is Spanish.
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