THIS CHART KILLS FASCISTS

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THIS CHART KILLS FASCISTS

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Amen

I'm fascinated by this 1948 Tour de France postcard collection which, when laid out, marks the entire route of the race that year. Has anyone seen anything like this before? the Inner Ring David Guénel

working title for next edition of Chartography is

THIS CHART KILLS FASCISTS

It will be a feat that I’m honestly still trying to pull off. Let me if you don’t know how to subscribe.

Seth Goldin launches an all pay charity auction. seths.blog/2024/04/launch…

beautiful new Rob Simmon portfolio

robertsimmon.com

HIRE THIS GUY!

“AND ALL THAT YOU SEE … AND ALL THAT YOU GIVE … AND ALL YOU CREATE ….”

We just opened Kenneth Field ‘s TOTAL ECLIPSE and I’m blown away. every sun gold foil. This must be the most spectacular print information graphic since a long time. Hard to convey via screen!

mere minutes after our partial eclipse, Kenneth Field’s modern masterpiece arrived to my door

weird careers 🙌

Trying to incorporate some of the chaotic/messy/annotated vibes from the debug view.

Which of these do you prefer?

don’t forget your glasses

#dataviz #history
In the run-up to Monday, thrill to Halley's prediction of a total solar #eclipse on 22 Apr 1715

1st time an eclipse path shown from above.
Great story told by J Pasachoff: bit.ly/49pWAgE
Wm Whiston documented the calc based on Newtonian theory.

Michael Friendly @datavisfriendly.bsky.social If you call them rAIncloud plots I can get you a $400m evaluation by end of day.

Two milestones of science visuals—a century apart—arrived in the mail today. Fritz Kahn’s DAS LEBEN DES MENSCHEN and Jen Christiansen’s BUILDING SCIENCE GRAPHICS.

Good use of map

“It’s photos from the sky, which is neat and technical, but then what?” Neat summary of my recent article on satellite data journalism by Nathan Yau

flowingdata.com/2024/03/28/usi…

Fun update to the Los Angeles Times California water supplies tracker:

The top now changes depending on how wet or dry it is in the state. Current status: Just right.

A very special thanks to Paul Duginski for his illustrations that made this touch possible.

latimes.com/projects/calif…

I got one! Swift Company dollar-of-sales pie chart (1918) featured by Karsten: archive.org/details/in.ern…

New book in progress:

100 Maps of Hawai‘i Island.