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IS MAKING DATA STORIES and publishing histories of information graphics at https://t.co/wgAsd9evv3 @readVisionary
Feb 23, 2023 4 tweets 2 min read
nice Tableau tableau! Image loving this AI-generated Chart-Chat truck-chart Image
Feb 8, 2023 35 tweets 15 min read
The history of @TheEconomist covers with information graphics, since it went colorful. An emerging 🧵.

1/ diagram & map from late 1963 ImageImage 2/ winter line graphs ImageImage
May 25, 2022 24 tweets 11 min read
1987's Micrografx Windows Graph designed for Microsoft Windows 1

winworldpc.com/product/microg… Screenshot of pink and green 80s aesthetic chart composition 1991's Micrografx Charisma 2.1 designed for Microsoft Windows 3.1

winworldpc.com/product/microg…
Apr 27, 2021 16 tweets 9 min read
1906 dataviz atlas unboxing. NOT A PIZZA BOX. Let’s go! twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1… ...unfortunately Twitter's potato-quality UX seems to have destroyed this broadcast ... but this artifact is REALLY SOMETHING. So here's an image 🧵:
Mar 3, 2021 5 tweets 3 min read
some data viz books not (yet!) on @storywithdata's shelves that are worth your attention:

1/n: favorite pre-digital titles that impact my practice today 2/n: more recent favorite books I pull off the shelves a lot
Jan 29, 2021 18 tweets 9 min read
History of #dataviz is dominated by 🇬🇧🇫🇷🇺🇸 for a lot of reasons. One of those reasons is people like me can't read other languages.

here's an emerging 🧵 of viz I ❤️ that I can't read.
Thanks for sending recs to more

1/ Gorkin 1937 Relef Soiuza SSR davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/s… Image 2/ Garcia Cubas 1885 Atlas Pintoresco E Historico davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/s… Image
Mar 2, 2020 19 tweets 12 min read
I make bar charts for a living during the week & for fun on the weekends.

📊 Bar chart emoji are all innately offensive. Here is a thread rating them all. @Emojipedia Before specific ratings, let's look at some general trends.

What STORY does each 📊 seem to tell? We like to read time left to right and associate up with positivity. That orientation yields different mini-narratives:
Dec 1, 2019 25 tweets 14 min read
for Advent I am making palettes inspired by a set of French thematic maps

Day 1 is from 1883's Album: davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/d… for Advent I am making palettes inspired by a set of French thematic maps

Day 2 is from 1886's Album: davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/d…
Apr 16, 2019 13 tweets 15 min read
Notre Dame de Paris's spatial-temporal secrets & meaning underly 📖INFO WE TRUST's climax.

Here's a a thread with mine and other #NotreDame diagrams: INFO WE TRUST's climax concerns the orientation of French Gothic cathedrals. This story is intro'd with Notre Dame de Paris: