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Napoleon, Trump, and the Best Statistical Graphic Ever Drawn

Now that I have your attention, let me ask you three simple yes-or-no questions.  Why you have seen Minard’s diagram of Napoleon’s invasion of RussiaWhen..
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Paul Kahn

Visualization Through Interdisciplinary Creativity

Complexity Science is a new scientific practice that is inherently interdisciplinary. It links state-of-the-art mathematics, modeling, data, and computer science with fundamental questions posed by various disciplines, such as medicine, economics, ecology, or social sciences.
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Review: Modern Man in the Making & Joy and Fear

"Joy and Fear" is an illustrated report that continues the exploration begun in Otto Neurath's 1939 book "Modern Man in the Making." It examines how modernity's promises and failures impact humanity, highlighting the uneven distribution of modern benefits across the globe.
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Inclusion and Exclusion in Emma Willard, Maps of History

A critical look at Willard's depiction of American history and America’s place in the history of the world. Many of her choices are still with us in the way we view our present space and time.
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Global Information Design, Part 4: Maps = Eyes + Imagination, Envisioning the Known World

A map is a diagram of a place. It shows us the physical relationships among the details. A map locates things we can touch and..
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From Creation to Migration, Part 3: Cosmology in the Small

We find Cosmology in the large among sacred and political monuments. Information about our origins and our place in the universe is also encoded in..
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Diving into Global Information Design, Part 2: Cosmology in the Large

Nine Themes for Frame Four Classification is an intellectual act, performed as often in the name of theology as in the name of science. The..
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Global Information Design, Part 1: A New Framework for Understanding Data Visualization

Patterns of Lines Information designers and dataviz practitioners today face a daily challenge: what technique, method, software, or code library to use for their next..