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The Underappreciated Man Behind the “Best Graphic Ever Produced”
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Charles Joseph Minard’s name is synonymous with an outstanding 1869 graphic depicting the horrific loss of life that Napoleon’s army suffered in 1812 and 1813, during its invasion of Russia and subsequent retreat. The graphic (below), which is often referred to simply as “Napoleon’s March” or “the Minard graphic,” rose to its prominent position in the pantheon of data visualizations largely thanks to praise from one of the field’s modern giants, Edward Tufte. In his 1983 classic text, “The Visual Display of Quantitative Information,” Tufte declared that Napoleon’s March “may well be the best statistical graphic ever produced.”

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Seeking #Minard

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Charles Joseph Minard was a French engineer famous for his depiction of Napoleon’s retreat from Moscow. He produced over 50 beautiful maps, most notably dozens that draped the flow of goods and people over geography. This article intentionally dives directly past the Moscow map and deep into a most surprising story of data visualization pioneering.

Minard composed almost all of his maps in retirement after completing a decorated career as an engineer and civil servant. A full biography is warranted, but the highlights of Minard’s professional career include studying as a teenager under Lagrange and Fourrier at the Ecole Polytechnique, taking part in many major public works projects, teaching at France’s premier civil engineering school (Ecole nationale des ponts et chaussée), being named to the National Order of the Legion of Honour and becoming the Inspector General of Bridges and Roads.

#visualisation #cartoexperiment #précurseurs #cartographes #cartographie

Pas lu le rapport, mais vu ces cartes :
Style #invasion #afflux :

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Syria crisis pushes EU asylum claims past 1992 record

The number of asylum applications received by EU member states in 2015 has broken the previous yearly high, set in 1992 after the breakup of Yugoslavia. We compare the data from 1992 and 2015 to show where people are coming from, where they are going, and why

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#visualisation #infographie #réfugiés #asile #migrations #histoire #statistiques #chiffres

Historical Data Visualization: Minard’s map vectorized and revisited

▻http://www.martingrandjean.ch/historical-data-visualization-minard-map

Tout à fait excellent, bravo Martin !

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 progress of the troops in the form of a stream whose width indicates the size of the “Great Army”, which will dramatically decrease throughout the campaign.

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