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https://t.co/tUp3q8hcyI Ex-McKinsey Data Visualization Lab, Editor-in-chief of Nightingale, Electronic Musician. https://t.co/6OqWYBRFs0

Dec 15, 2021, 7 tweets

I haven’t been sharing as much lately because I’ve been trying not to buy too many more books, but today I started looking through Karl G Karsten’s fantastic 1926 Charts and Graphs. Here’s what we says about our favorite chart type:

I really like this pile of shells:

I have no idea what this is, but I feel like a drew a sketch of this earlier this afternoon!

This distorted map is actually really a feasible design!! Someone should use this for something!

Amazing to think of the population of 1925 being so radically different than today

Interesting- color was controversial in 1925 too!

Lastly, turns out the optical illusions were being complained about then too

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