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Dylan Tallchief recreated Take On Me by a-ha in Excel.It s not the tools. It s how you use them. Something something blah blah. It s in Excel! As a 100-day project, Alli Torban has been imagining what a data visualization designer s wallpaper might look like through the years. She started in 1920, and with one design per year, she s up to 1989.The focus on aesthetics shows slow shifts in colors and patterns through time. Although I feel like the early 1980s, when The Visual Display of Quantitative Information was first published, should look super minimalist with a lot of space.Good stuff. I know it seems like ages ago when we were talking about flattening the curve, but it was a rallying cry at some point. The charts that started it all weren t particularly fancy or something to admire. For Mother Jones, Abigail Weinberg wondered why it still worked:There were axes and legends, and Drew Harris, a professor of population health, would later add a line representing the capacity of the health care system, but in truth there was nothing particularly rigorous about the chart. It was a work of the imagination, too artless to be art but lacking the hard empiricism we expect of science. That in-betweenness is what made it so effective.At the time, there were so many unknowns that projections seemed hard to grasp onto. But the visual concreteness of a chart, even though it was abstract and not based on actual data, seemed to be just enough certainty.Pen plotters slowly draw out a picture line-by-line, so when you watch a chart plot out, it shows up on the paper one piece at a time. Silfa Huttner and Duncan Geere s use this unraveling feature in Plottervision. In the video above, they describe fluctuating oil prices.Pen plotters are all the rage these days. I think it must be some combination of pressure and time. That s all it takes really. Pressure and time. The visualization work of W.E.B. Du Bois and his students has been on FD before, but it s worth another look. In 1900, they put together a series of charts for a Paris exhibition visualizing black America. You can access the collection via the Library of Congress.If you re looking for more context for the charts and the times, Whitney Battle-Baptiste and Britt Rusert wrote about the history and motivations in W.E.B. Du Bois s Data Portraits: Visualizing Black America. On the line chart above:What appears to be another straightforward line chart is one of the most overtly political charts in the Georgia study. An undulating black line shows extrapolated property values in outline and actual property values in solid black crossing a red grid of squares. Tucked into the grid is a series of disquieting socioeconomic and political trends: the rise of the Ku Klux Klan and political unrest in the 1870s; new industrialism in the 1880s; followed by lynching, financial panic, disenfranchisement, and proscriptive laws in the 1890s. The diagram powerfully links the economic progress of black Georgians to larger regimes of violence against African Americans, pointing to the widespread disenfranchisement and dispossession of black people in the post-Reconstruction era.Again, this is from 1900.Maddy Varner reporting for The Markup: All protesting and all marches are a series of balancing acts of different priorities and acceptable risks, said Mason Donahue, a member of Lucy Parsons Labs, a Chicago-based group of technologists and activists that run digital security training classes and have investigated the Chicago Police Department’s use of surveillance technology. There is a lot of communication ability that goes away if you don t bring a phone period, he said.So if you re going to take your phone, you might want to do some of the following things to minimize risk.These are straightforward items like installing an app or changing a setting on your phone, so it should only take a few minutes before you step out.

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