Source: Georgia Tech Digital Humanities Lab
URL: Data by Design: Playfair Visualization, Step by Step
In Playfair’s chapter, we remade his original “Imports and Exports to and from North-America” graph with d3. We also breakdown his process of making visualizations with engraving and compared it to the modern way of using software tools. Playfair’s original visualization D3 recreation of Playfair’s visualization The recreation integrated the scrolly-telling feature we had for this project, breaking down the process of Playfair’s engraving and transformed it into today’s data plotting method with d3. As the reader scroll through the web page, components of the visualization appears in the order of creation along with text explanation. https://dhlab.lmc.gatech.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Screen-Recording-2021-02-13-at-13.37.49.mp4 The visualization…
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