by Martin Grandjean | 2.02.2023 | Featured
The League of Nations marks a turning point in the history of international relations in that it is the first model of a “world parliament”. But who paid for it? The member states contributed according to their economic capacity and their political will....
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...
by Martin Grandjean | 16.01.2014 | From the web, Humanités
Peut-on croiser n’importe quelles données ? Le National Geographic a produit une cartographie1 – magnifique au demeurant – qui pose des questions de visualisation évidentes : sur une carte du monde sont superposées des données liées à la densité de...