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Laura Sinisterra's avatar

This looks great! Just found this, really excited about it, I’m also obsessed with diagrams and data graphics. Will take a look deeply at the tool and let you know my thoughts

Stefan Karner's avatar

Very nice!

Would you consider adding the german language charts that Neurath and his team created when working at the "Gesellschafts- und Wirtschaftsmuseum" in 1920s Vienna, like the "bildstatistisches Elementarwerk"?

It can be found here: https://www.digital.wienbibliothek.at/wbrobv/content/titleinfo/2295773

BTW, there currently is an exhibition about Isotype at the "Wien Museum" (City Museum of Vienna) titled "Knowledge for All. ISOTYPE – the Picture Language from Vienna". It runs through April 5th, 2026.

IMO, it is well worth a visit. I am there at least once a week as they offer public workshops about various aspects related to creating Isotype charts.

Information can be found here: https://www.wienmuseum.at/knowledge_for_all

RJ Andrews's avatar

I’m focused on English-language first. Then maybe earlier German stuff.

Data+Drawing with Sophie's avatar

Love, love, love!!

And very nice touch to add the British to US spelling—I get tripped up by that quite a bit when I search library catalogues.

Thank you for putting this out for the rest of us to explore 🙏

RJ Andrews's avatar

It's growing as more candidates are detected in titles and OCR text. So far we have:

const SPELLING_MAP: Array<[string, string]> = [

["colour", "color"],

["labour", "labor"],

["centre", "center"],

["organisation", "organization"],

["organise", "organize"],

["programme", "program"],

["defence", "defense"],

["theatre", "theater"],

["grey", "gray"],

["travelled", "traveled"],

["analyse", "analyze"]

];

Data+Drawing with Sophie's avatar

It's the 'z' / 's' spelling that'd do me in all the 'analyse'/'analyze', etc you could get in data visualisation (visualization' 😂)

Alex Stewart's avatar

This will be such a cool resource, thank you