Data by Design: Static Visualizations for Playfair’s Chapter

Source: Georgia Tech Digital Humanities Lab
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Besides the “Export and Import to and from all North-America” scrollytelling visualization, I also created several static visualizations using d3 to showcase Playfair’s method with modern technologies. The first two visualizations use the same data of Playfair’s import-export chart. The stacked bar graph on the left uses a similar axis and labels as the import-export chart. I have each bar with constant width representing each year we have in the CSV and positioned chronologically. For year 1770 to year 1782, where we have detailed data points, the bars are overlapping each other. The Coxcomb graph on the right uses a…
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