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THE SCANDAL OF CLARITY
By Giulio Frigieri
When reading a newspaper or magazine, do you ever have the impression that the number of charts and maps used to represent information is growing exponentially? When surfing online, does it seem to you like diagrams and animations appear almost anywhere, and have become a necessary complement to present data? Or perhaps, as you were leafing through the latest journalism manual, did you notice that visualization, along with scraping data and investigative research techniques, is featured as the sharpest weapon of the post-modern data journalist? If any of these facts has caught your eye, or if the architecture of data presented in graphic form has fascinated you at least once in your life, you are already taking part in the unstoppable race towards the production and consumption of infographics that is taking over the contemporary information scene.