{"id":31402,"date":"2020-12-04T14:44:16","date_gmt":"2020-12-04T20:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=31402"},"modified":"2020-12-04T14:44:16","modified_gmt":"2020-12-04T20:44:16","slug":"data-visualization-through-the-ages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/12\/04\/data-visualization-through-the-ages\/","title":{"rendered":"Data Visualization Through The Ages"},"content":{"rendered":"

The phrase data visualization<\/em> is, at least for me, a modern phrase, often connected to computers. I suppose I exposed my technological provincialism there. Anyways, I was surprised to run across some historical research on data visualization involving … W. E. B. Du Bois<\/a>, the famed Black scholar. In this presentation from October of 2019, current scholar Silas Munroe presents a study of the work of Du Bois and other Black scholars of his era in the area of data visualization. Just a couple of examples here, lifted from the presentation:<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>While perhaps not as impressive as Charles Minard’s<\/a> classic graph of the French invasion of Russia in 1812 (right), they succeed in graphically getting their points across.<\/p>\n

If you have an especial interest in data visualization history or W. E. B. Du Bois, it might be worth your time to look at Munroe’s presentation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The phrase data visualization is, at least for me, a modern phrase, often connected to computers. I suppose I exposed my technological provincialism there. Anyways, I was surprised to run across some historical research on data visualization involving … W. E. B. Du Bois, the famed Black scholar. In this \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31402"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31408,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31402\/revisions\/31408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}