@attilabatorfy
dataviz and information graphics at ELTE MMI portfolio: https://attilabatorfy.com/ head of visual journalism project: https://atlo.team/ book order: https://eltebook.hu/batorfy-attila-adatvizualizacio blog: https://attilabatorfy.substack.com/
On the right: Henry Drury Harness's flow map from 1837. On the left: an even earlier flow map by the Hungarian engineer Imre Milecz from 1773. Read the details here: attilabatorfy.substack.com/p/could-this...
@datavisfriendly.bsky.social said: "The goal should be to continue to reduce the distance between a graphic idea in your head and its appearance on screen or paper. In this, I’ve been struck by how software design, like ggplot became a lingua franca of graphics..." From here: short-url.org/1lp0S
Wow!
Show me better than this. Ann Marie Redfield: General view of the animal kingdom, 1857. More here attilabatorfy.substack.com/p/connections
I raise
Types of German intelligence and espionage. From here archive.org/details/lett...
Most of the recent examples already given are terrific charting, but not good at focusing on the human cost of
violence.
For that I recommend section VI of THE SACRIFICES OF GREECE IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR, titled "The sufferings of the inhabitants."
www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet...
My guest post on Patterns of Translation translationpatterns.substack.com/p/visualizin...
Many new chronological charts, timelines in the History collection attilabatorfy.substack.com/p/history
Link: attilabatorfy.substack.com/p/swedish-pe...
3D drawing of a quincunx. It shows piles of little balls separated by vertical dividers and the shape of the distribution approximates a Gausian
Portrait of Francis Galton by Charles Wellington Furse
#TodayinHistory #dataviz #Onthisday #OTD 📊
📅Feb 27, 1874 Francis Galton demonstrated the quincunx at a meeting of the Royal Institution-- showing how normal distributions arise as sum of small random effects [Stigler:1986, p.276] --
Great example of data physicalization
My child started practicing Kung Fu, and I found this in the Master's office.
In the Open Visualization Academy newsletter: Friends of the OVA, Episode 3, a conversation with @moritzstefaner.bsky.social about his recent State of Neuroscience project openvisualizationacademy.beehiiv.com/p/truth-beau...
#dataViz #infographics #dataJournalism #dataVisualization
Sometimes it feels like all the good historical #dataviz has already been dug up & dissected — which is why it’s so refreshing to have Attila excavating and sharing so many new (old) graphics.
@csh.ac.at is hosting another Complexity Science workshop in Vienna! I attended in 2024 & can highly recommend it. I met many data viz practitioners for the first time in Vienna, and I'm happy to have seen quite a few of them again at other events since.
vis.csh.ac.at/vis-workshop...
#dataviz
ANNOUNCE: Nominations are open for the prestigious ASA Statistical Computing and Graphic Award. 🎖️
It recognizes innovation in computing, software, or graphics that has had a significant impact on statistical practice or research.
#rstats #stats
community.amstat.org/jointscsg-se...
Extremely weird charts from Richard Peale's "Popular Compendium" published between 1883 and 1893. The full article is here: attilabatorfy.substack.com/p/extravagan...
My favs from the Connections collection.
Link: attilabatorfy.substack.com/p/connections
Chronological/network charts about the history of art
attilabatorfy.substack.com/p/history
Truly great stuff for all you diagrammatics | networks | visualization afficionados out there!
21 networks, dendrograms, organizational and genealogical charts in this collection.
