by Martin Grandjean | 9.09.2015 | Humanités
A long time ago, in a galaxy (not so) far away… migrants were fleeing Europe! In the nineteenth century, hundreds of thousands of Europeans left their continent to find a better (?) life in the Americas and in the colonies. Based on 1858 data, the map of Charles...
by Martin Grandjean | 26.05.2014 | Humanités
Generally considered as the first data visualization, the figurative map of Charles Joseph Minard (1869) shows the path of Napoleon’s troops across the Russian Empire of Alexander I. Using amazingly simple and modern graphical codes, this map displays the...