Posts Tagged ‘xenographphobia’
“Above all else show the data”*…
Three of the many exhibits at Xenographics…
… a collection of unusual charts and maps, managed by Maarten Lambrechts. Its objective is to create a repository of novel, innovative and experimental visualizations to inspire you, to fight xenographphobia and popularize new chart types…
* Edward Tufte
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As we put the info into infographics, we might ponder the terminally-tarnished legacy of James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow; he was born on this date in 1820. While he was an accomplished statistician who served as as head of the U.S. Census from 1853 to 1857, he was also the founder and first editor of DeBow’s Review, a widely-circulated magazine of “agricultural, commercial, and industrial progress and resource” in the American South from 1846 until 1884. Before the Civil War, the magazine “recommended the best practices for wringing profits from slaves.”
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