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Kate Crawford and Vladan Joler created a comprehensive view in Calculating Empires.
Calculating…

This is a fun project by Jan Willem Tulp. Based on data from…

For Retool, Glenn Fleishman looks back to a time when data on the…

The map sold for $239,000 at a Christie’s auction, but it was misdated…

Not everything has to be permanent, but it would be nice if the best visualization projects were still available many years from now.

A law was passed in 1990 that allowed Native American tribes to request…

Mapping the entire planet is not exactly a straightforward thing to do, especially…

Visualization still seems like a relatively new thing, but it has a history…

For Scientific American, RJ Andrews looks back at the visualization work of Florence…

While geographic boundaries can often seem like a semi-static thing, they’ve changed a…

For privacy reasons, there’s a 72-year restriction on individual Census records, which include…

The David Rumsey Map Center at Stanford houses hundreds of thousands of maps…

With the 2020 Olympics wrapped up, The New York Times raced this year’s…

Michael Friendly and Howard Wainer have a new book out: A History of…

The Information Graphic Visionaries book series just launched on Kickstarter. Emma Willard, Florence…

RJ Andrews, in collaboration with the David Rumsey Map Center, curated a collection…

The visualization work of W.E.B. Du Bois and his students has been on…

Manuel Lima hosted a free online panel with Michale Friendly and Sandra Rendgen…

Stephen M. Stigler argues that data have a limited shelf life. The abstract:…

Visualization is a relatively new field. Sort of. The increased availability of data…