Tag: Historic Dataviz

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RJ Andrews

Colossal Chronography: Frances Harriet Lightfoot’s 1831 Marvel

Republished from https://www.chartography.net/p/colossal-chronography One reason to envy information designers of yesterday is the big canvases they got to play with. Look at this 1831 timeline..
Kangnido is the oldest world map in Korea and one of the oldest from East AsiaA
Jiwon Kim

A Brief and Inspiring History of Data Visualization in Korea

From Korea’s first world map to a data viz YouTube channel, these six pieces showcase the country's rich history of data visuals.
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Paul Kahn

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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William Careri

The Challenge of Designing Nuclear Waste Warning Markers to Last 10,000 Years

A group of experts had to propose visual warning markers for a radioactive waste site. Their design needed to be comprehensible, durable, and timeless.
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Jason Forrest

Pioneer in Black Data: Monroe N. Work and the Negro Year Book

Monroe N. Work exposed Black living conditions in the early 20th century by compiling data. Here's how he exposed inequalities in education through dataviz.
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Jason Forrest

The Telefacts of Life: Rudolf Modley’s Isotypes in American Newspapers 1938–1945

While Otto Neurath invented the Isotype in Vienna in 1925 and guided its evolution to international acclaim, he was not successful in the United States...
A data visualisation showing the flights and fates of the Soviet Space Dogs. Each dog is represented by a circle. Circle size shows the number of flights they undertook and circle colour indicates whether they survived, while a coloured tail shows the gender of the dog. Flights are represented by triangles along a timeline at the bottom. Triangle height shows the flight altitude and triangle colour shows the rocket type used. Dogs are connected by lines to the flights that they flew on.D
Phoenix

Discovering Data Visualisation: How I Discovered and Fell in Love with Data Visualisation Art

I stumbled upon data visualisation art quite by accident early in 2022, at a time when I was at an interesting crossroads in my life...
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Adam Korengold

Insights Of Their Own: Visualizing Women’s Baseball

Viz by the author.
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Chimdi Nwosu

SPOTLIGHT: W.E.B. Du Bois Portrait Gallery

Chimdi Nwosu’s interactive visualization, the W.E.B. Du Bois Portrait Gallery, is a beautifully designed exploration of 20 re-created Du Bois charts. The gallery won Favorite..
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Joshua Pine

REVIEW: Dan Bouk’ Democracy’s Data: The Hidden Stories in the U.S. Census and How to Read Them

The practice of data storytelling often focuses on weaving a narrative by highlighting themes from a dataset. Author Dan Bouk flips this conventional practice on..
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Jason Forrest

Patrick Abercrombie’s “The Greater London Plan”

One of my favorite works of data visualization is a map from “The Greater London Plan” in 1944. This semi-abstract map by Patrick Abercrombie and..
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Michael Friendly

Colorless Green Graphs Sleep Furiously: A Conversation with Leland Wilkinson

This article traces some history of ideas behind Leland Wilkinson’s development of the Grammar of Graphics (and later, of ggplot2) in the form of a..
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Lori Witzel

Did Data Visualization Erase the Woman from Women’s Work?

As the world changed over the past two years, more and more of my friends took to handcrafts like quilting and knitting as a counterbalance..
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Nicholas Rougeux

Encyclopedic Data Art

The digital edition of Iconographic Encyclopædia was a year-long project to breathe new life into an antique. In recent years, I’ve undertaken several of these..
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Anthony Starks

The #DuBois Challenge

In February 2021, people on Twitter were challenged to re-create the historical data visualizations of W.E.B. Du Bois. The goal of the challenge was to..
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Liubov Popovets

Analytics of Avant-Garde: How Soviet Artists Designed Data

Internet research teaches us that people don’t read a text, but scan it. Fonts, pictures, and charts are used to highlight important ideas. A hundred..