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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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  1. Print length
    320 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Guardian Faber Publishing
  4. Publication date
    4 April 2013
  5. Dimensions
    19.7 x 3.1 x 25.3 cm
  6. ISBN-10
    0571301614
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0571301614
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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

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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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Customers find the book easy to read and interesting. They appreciate the good concepts and examples of its influence in modern society. Readers also like the great use of color, charts, and diagrams. Overall, they describe it as an inspirational and beautiful coffee-table book.

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Customers find the book easy to read and engaging. They appreciate the good understanding of important data that affects their lives.

"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...." Read more

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Customers find the book's influence interesting and inspiring, with good examples of its impact on modern society. They appreciate the well-written concepts, compelling stories, and wide range of themes and methods covered. However, some feel the writing lacks specificity.

"Fascinating. Kept me interested all xmas. Covers a real broad ramge of themes and methods. Well written and easy to digest." Read more

"...into the enormous wealth of data now available online, and tell compelling stories from it, this is inspirational." Read more

"...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." Read more

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Customers appreciate the book's color scheme, charts, and diagrams. They find the presentation clear and beautiful, making it a nice coffee-table book in the style of David McCandless.

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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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