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Nick Byrd, Ph.D.
Nick Byrd, Ph.D.
@ByrdNick@nerdculture.de  ·  activity timestamp last week

I finally read this book about how W.E.B. #Dubois and colleagues challenged 19th and 20th century ideas and intuitions by visualizing data: https://amzn.to/49916Dz

Cheers to those who advance debate with clear, cogent, empirical arguments.

#stats #history #sociology #philosophy

Battle-Baptiste, W., & Rusert, B. (2018). W. E. B. Du Bois’s Data Portraits: Visualizing Black America. Princeton Architectural Press. ISBN 978-1-61689-706-2  https://amzn.to/49916Dz
Battle-Baptiste, W., & Rusert, B. (2018). W. E. B. Du Bois’s Data Portraits: Visualizing Black America. Princeton Architectural Press. ISBN 978-1-61689-706-2 https://amzn.to/49916Dz
Battle-Baptiste, W., & Rusert, B. (2018). W. E. B. Du Bois’s Data Portraits: Visualizing Black America. Princeton Architectural Press. ISBN 978-1-61689-706-2 https://amzn.to/49916Dz
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Nick Byrd, Ph.D.
Nick Byrd, Ph.D.
@ByrdNick@nerdculture.de replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

Bonus: Dubois' data and visualizations from the early 20th century are available for free on #Github so that anyone can reproduce the infographics, run their own analyses, etc.:

The #dataViz: https://github.com/ajstarks/dubois-data-portraits/blob/master/orig-catalog2.pdf

#dataAnalysis #openAccess #archive #DuBoisChallenge2025 #edu

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All 60-something data visualizations from Dubois et al's 1900 exhibit in Paris in PDF format from GitHub.
All 60-something data visualizations from Dubois et al's 1900 exhibit in Paris in PDF format from GitHub.
All 60-something data visualizations from Dubois et al's 1900 exhibit in Paris in PDF format from GitHub.
The 2025 Du Bois Visualization Challenge README.md file on GitHub.
The 2025 Du Bois Visualization Challenge README.md file on GitHub.
The 2025 Du Bois Visualization Challenge README.md file on GitHub.
dubois-data-portraits/orig-catalog2.pdf at master · ajstarks/dubois-data-portraits (PDF)
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