RJ's Inspiration #002 🎫

RJ's Inspiration

weekly viz to inspire you too

👁 THÉÂTRES DE PARIS
was designed by Émile Cheysson for the Album de Statistique Graphique de 1889. Pictured is a detail of a wide composition. Each theater is represented by a "fan diagram" with one wedge for each year. The total area of each wedge corresponds to that year's gross receipts. Years of the Universal Exposition, which often attracted additional business, are highlighted in yellow.

I love so much about this: Its semitransparent yet bold color across a beautiful base map. How the fan diagram mimics the shape of the original theaters. How macro comparisons between theaters (the scale of receipts is consistent throughout) is just as inviting as micro scale trends across a single theater's years (the dashed line is a summary average of just the years between the Expositions). Magnifique! Explore the full composition, which includes additional charts, for yourself at the David Rumsey Map Collection. Link.

🛠 INFO WE TRUST
Lisa Charlotte Rost  (Twitter) is hosting a virtual book club to talk about Info We Trust (Amazon). Start with her excellent overview of the book and then join tomorrow (Tuesday March 12th) at 12 noon EST for the live discussion and a Q&A with me. The chat will be preserved at that link for all not able to attend live.

👉 WHAT INSPIRES YOU?
Please contact me to share your favorite viz or offer any advice for how this newsletter experiment can be improved.