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A short visual history of charts and graphs « Seeing Complexity
Most of the charts used today in data visualization among virtually all of the social sciences (economics included–you can’t get out of it this time) derive from the original design of William Playfair (1759-1823), political economist and a product of the Scottish enlightenment , and Johann Heinrich Lambert (1728-1777), a mathematician of the Alpine inclination. Together, they more or less popularized the idea that data could be presented to a mass audience.
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W.E.B. Du Bois, radical visualization, and the transformative power of information « Seeing Complexity
The Exhibit of American Negroes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Exhibit of American Negroes was a sociological display within the Palace of Social Economy at the 1900 World's Fair in Paris . The exhibit was a joint effort between Daniel Murray , the Assistant Librarian of Congress, Thomas Calloway, a lawyer and the primary organizer of the exhibit, and W.E.B.
W.E.B. Du Bois' Paris Album
In his groundbreaking sociological study on race and society, The Souls of Black Folk , published in 1903, W.E.B. Du Bois describes a dual sense of identity and internal conflict created by the notion of double-consciousness: One ever feels his two-ness, -- an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.Black History Charts, 1900
The stunning charts you see here were hand drawn and colored at the turn of the 19th century, by Sociology students at Atlanta University (now Clark Atlanta University ). Their professor at the time, African American activist W.E.B. Du Bois , was organizing the upcoming “American Negro” exhibit for the 1900 Exposition Universelle in Paris.