Chartography

Welcome to Chartography-insights and delights from the world of data storytelling.A race car needs tires that grip. It needs brakes too. The machine is fast because it remains answerable to the road.Without the right resistance, performance becomes panic.

Welcome to Chartography-insights and delights from the world of data storytelling.The new Zheng He scroll map is ten meters long, so a classroom was out of the question.To show it to third graders at a local San Francisco school, we had to take over the g

Welcome to Chartography-insights and delights from the world of data storytelling.Some images call to one another. That is the premise of Chartography's inspiration double-shots: far-flung works juxtaposed so their hidden kinships can glow.Today's pairing

Welcome to Chartography-insights and delights from the world of data storytelling.Rare-book collecting has a new luxury: you can inspect a century-old atlas online before deciding whether to own it.I was staring at a Kosho listing for a 1925 volume called

Welcome to Chartography-insights and delights from the world of data storytelling.Data graphics are powerful. Data graphics are also homeless. It's a weird quirk of our trade.Charts influence almost everything-medicine, journalism, business, science, publ

Thank you for tuning into my live show with discussing the history and practice of equality visualization. You can (re)watch our discussion above.We picked through 200 years of inequality charts and maps. In one sense, we are still grappling with the same

Welcome to Chartography-insights and delights from the world of data storytelling.Imagine you are watching a strange parade of people march by. Each person is sized by the money they make. A person of average height has an average income. Someone a little

Welcome to Chartography-insights and delights from the world of data storytelling.I've been cooking-building an original archive explorer from my collection of Isotype Institute charts and maps, so I can find fresh insights and inspiration in seconds.Now

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Welcome to Chartography-insights and delights from the world of data storytelling.When was the last time a new map really sparked joy in your life?I am the proud recipient of "Daona-Youjiang: Echoes of the Rice Fields." It's a spectacular scroll map by th