DATAVIZ as HISTORY
THE REVOLUTIONARYINFOGRAPHICS OF W.E.B. DU BOISAND BOOKER T. WASHINGTON (Photo Above) W.E.B. Du Bois at the 1900 Paris Exposition.(Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers-Library of Congress) Data visualization techniques continue to provide popular tools for everyone from journalists, researchers and corporations to provide a better way to view often dense data and explain complex data in […]
WHAT CHARTS SAY
All charts say something. They are a form of communication and we can evaluate them as such. Like any other statement, a chart says something explicitly. By which I mean a chart really does have that “show me the data” quality. But that’s a dangerous expression, because data doesn’t have a natural form. It’s something to be […]