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Facts are Sacred Hardcover – 4 April 2013

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What is the true human cost of the war in Afghanistan? What are the real effects of the austerity measure? And how did the London riots spread so quickly?

Facts are Sacred, the Guardian's award-winning datablog, publishes and analyses seemingly benign data - released under the auspices of transparency - to bring its readers astonishing revelations about the way we live now. It reveals how data has changed our world and what we can learn from it. Now, the most telling findings from the blog are brought together to give us the facts and figures behind the headlines, beautifully illustrated with extensive data visualisations. Ground-breaking and fascinating, it celebrates a resource that has pushed the boundaries of modern journalism and is a manifesto for a new way of seeing things.

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    4 April 2013
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    19.7 x 3.1 x 25.3 cm
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Facts are Sacred by Simon Rogers is a full-colour guide to the data that shapes our lives, looking behind the headlines and the soundbites to what's really going on.

About the Author

Simon Rogers is the editor of guardian.co.uk/data and a news editor on the Guardian, working with the graphics team to bring figures to life on the page. He was closely involved with the Guardian's groundbreaking decision to crowdsource 450,000 MP expenses records, as well as the organisation's coverage of the Afghanistan and Iraq 'Wikileaks' war logs. In 2010, Simon received a special commendation from the Royal Statistical Society in its awards for journalistic excellence. In 2011, the datalog won the Newspaper Awards prize for Best Use of New Media, the Knight Batten award for innovation in journalism and the Online Media award for innovation in journalism.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Guardian Faber Publishing; Main edition (4 April 2013)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 320 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0571301614
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0571301614
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 19.7 x 3.1 x 25.3 cm
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Simon Rogers is an award-winning data journalist, writer and speaker. Author of ‘Facts are Sacred‘, published by Faber & Faber in the UK, China and South Korea. He has also written a range of infographics for children books from Candlewick. Data editor on the News Lab team at Google, based in San Francisco, he is director of the Data Journalism Awards and teaches Data Journalism at Medill-Northwestern University in San Francisco and has taught at U Cal Berkeley Journalism school.

He has been deeply involved in recent award-winning projects, such as:

• Electionland (winner of ONA and SPJ Sigma Delta Chi Awards)

• Google Year in Search (2016 & 2017 Webby Awards)

• Visualizing Google Data project (Information is Beautiful Awards, 2017)

History

Simon edited and created guardian.co.uk/data, an online data resource which publishes hundreds of raw datasets and encourages its users to visualise and analyse them – and probably the world’s most popular data journalism website.

He was also Twitter’s first ever Data Editor, working to tell stories from billions of tweets.

He has been a news editor on the Guardian, working with the graphics team to visualise and interpret huge datasets. He was closely involved in the paper’s exercise to crowdsource 450,000 MP expenses records and the coverage of the Afghanistan and Iraq Wikileaks war logs. He was also a key part of the Reading the Riots team which investigated the causes of the 2011 England disturbances. The launch news editor of the Guardian’s website, guardian.co.uk, he has edited the paper’s science section and has three Guardian books, including How Slow Can You Waterski? and The Hutton Inquiry and its impact.

Simon received the Royal Statistical Society’s award for statistical excellence in journalism.

factscoverHe has also been named Best UK Internet Journalist by the Oxford Internet Institute, Oxford University. He won the inaugural XCity award from City University.

His Factfile UK series of supplements won a silver at the Malofiej infographics award and the Datablog won the Newspaper Awards prize for Best Use of New Media.

The Datastore was also honoured at:

Online Media Awards, 2012 (commendation)

Knight Batten awards for innovation in journalism, 2011

Technical innovation, Online Media Awards 2011

Best use of new media for Guardian Datablog, Newspaper Awards 2011

Simon is author of Facts are Sacred: the Power of Data (out on Kindle). And check out the hardback version from Faber & Faber, and this interactive version from iTunes. He is the author of a new range of infographics for children books from Candlewick.

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R. Bailey
5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 9 April 2014
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How to bring clarity to chaos, with beautiful presentation. For journalists who want to delve deeper into the enormous wealth of data now available online, and tell compelling stories from it, this is inspirational.
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s_d_c
4.0 out of 5 stars Lots to take in
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 25 April 2013
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Good book with lots of detail to take in, will probably be one of those books that will take me a couple of reads for it to sink in. Using it in real life at work will be the true test!
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Mr. Jewitt
3.0 out of 5 stars Don't mistake this for a 'how to' manual
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 19 April 2013
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I purchased this on the back of a Guardian Tech Weekly podcast (12 Apr 2013) in which the author was being interviewed. In this, it was suggested that this book may be a useful 'how to' tool. This is only true to a point in that it talks about the theoretical arguments around data journalism, but it is less an instruction manual than I believed it to be. This misunderstanding was compounded by the lack of internal book preview feature before the purchase. The final chapter does offer some broad observations on data journalism practices, but it's not sustained or detailed.

Nevertheless, this is a beautiful coffee-table book in the style of David McCandless' data visualisations, e.g.  Information is Beautiful (New Edition) . It contains many of the high profile visualisations that have graced the pages of guardian.co.uk in recent years). Just don't come to this expecting to learn techniques and you won't be disappointed.
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stuart fullerton
5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant book
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 13 January 2014
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Fascinating. Kept me interested all xmas. Covers a real broad ramge of themes and methods. Well written and easy to digest.
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GABRIEL ORTIZ
5.0 out of 5 stars If you are into infographics, it is a Must!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 25 September 2013
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Awesome Work by Simon Rogers, if you are a journalist or a graphic designer interested in infographics you must have this book
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obui
4.0 out of 5 stars Sacred Facts
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 17 August 2013
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Need this book in my life, finally got it after seeing it at the Tate Modern. This book is great for the creative who cant visualise numbers and facts , great use of colour, charts and diagrams.
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Gripper17
5.0 out of 5 stars Quite Interesting.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 7 September 2013
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If you enjoy reading about odd and often counter-intuitive general knowledge type information then this is the book for you.
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James Lyne
3.0 out of 5 stars Good concepts, well written but short and lacking specificity
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 27 May 2013
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A worthwhile read but very much conceptual without much time spent exploring the specifics of data journalism. Good examples of its influence in modern society but little as to how it could or should be improved or how we can play a part.
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Huang Erwin Steve
5.0 out of 5 stars great book, but the interactive vers on iBooks is better format
Reviewed in the United States on 14 March 2014
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Great book, the interactive vers on iBooks (on UK store) is better format.
it give a good intro to Data Journalism.
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Cristian Garcia
3.0 out of 5 stars Good 101 on Data Journalism
Reviewed in the United States on 8 December 2014
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I got the Kindle version and I felt I had only one part of the story. I love and follow The Guardian's Data team, that is why I got the book, but I truly missed the visual part.
The content was correct. In this early age of data visualization and journalism, The Guardian leads worldwide, what they say on the book is how "the movement" will start to get bigger and create a huge impact on our society.
I truly wish they go deeper on their second book. I will be waiting for it.
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