Tag: Historic Dataviz

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Mary Aviles

REVIEW: A Guided Virtual Tour of ‘Data Visualization and the Modern Imagination’

Like inventors, explorers, and philosophers, data visualizers have honed their craft through experimentation, abject failure, breakthrough moments, pushing boundaries, and by standing on the shoulders..
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Jason Forrest

Lessons Of Isotype: “Only An Ocean Between” (Part 1)

There’s much to be told in the story of the Isotype. The International System Of Typographic Picture Education (ISOTYPE) was invented by Otto Neurath in collaboration with his wife Marie Neurath, and Gerd Arntz. While..
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Paul Kahn

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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Paul Kahn

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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Paul Kahn

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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Paul Kahn

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..
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Nigel Hawtin

Finding Inspiring Data Visualisations In Mid-century Nature Books

Creativity and inspiration can come from anywhere in life. For me over the past couple of weeks due to fracturing my right (drawing) arm, it..
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Ben Jones

Credit Where Credit is Due: Mary Eleanor Spear

Have you ever heard of Mary Eleanor Spear? I don’t recall seeing her name come up in discussions or presentations about the pioneers of this..
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Stephanie Evergreen

Beyond Nightingale: Being a Woman in Data Visualization

If you conduct a quick internet search on “history of data visualization,” you’ll nearly always see Florence Nightingale included in the annals of history. Why?..
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Jason Forrest

Data Visualization in the Age of Communism

The Soviet Union used data to inspire, terrify, and persuade the proletariat The story of the Soviet Union is indelibly wedded to its propaganda. Visually stunning..
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Senthil Natarajan

From the Battlefield to Basketball: A Data Visualization Journey with Florence Nightingale

In 1858, Florence Nightingale published a study on the conditions of army hospitals, her seminal Notes on Matters Affecting the Health, Efficiency, and Hospital Administration of the..
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Jason Forrest

The Gilded Age Map That Shines a Light on America’s Past and Present

It’s hard not to be shocked by “Historical Geography,” a map by John F. Smith from 1888. By overlaying a strange “tree” shape with such..
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Arnold Platon

Political Systems Charts: An Understudied Chart Form

Political systems charts are frequently seen online but there is scarce information on the genre and on how it evolved throughout the decades. This article will..
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RJ Andrews

Tear Up Your Baseline

A torn paper metaphor brings non-zero baselines to your reader’s attention. This intentional design flourish is inspired by one of data visualization’s pioneers who, 100..
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Jason Forrest

Data Journalism in the study of W.E.B. Du Bois’s “The Negro Problem” (Part 2)

One of the most powerful examples of data visualization was made 118 years ago by an all-black team led by W.E.B. Du Bois only 37..