I’ve been working on a longer article for weeks now, and so far I’ve hit a wall. It’s an exciting story, it’s about the unmeasurable impact of a statistician’s graphic work. This isn’t the first time I’ve gotten stuck on a topic, and in times like these, a longer break always does me good. Since our family is going on vacation to magical Calabria, maybe the coming weeks will give me enough time to sort out a few things for myself.
This also means that while I’m lounging on the beach and strolling through small villages, I won’t have time to write, sometimes you just need to relax. In the meantime, here’s another round of strange (see here the Christmas edition), weird or spectacular diagrams, data graphics, and maps that I’ve set aside for myself while browsing in digital collections.
Land categories and land taxes in Latvia. In: Lietuva skaitmenimis, 1918-1928 m. La Lithuanie en chiffres, 1918-1928: diagramų albomas. Source: Archive.org
Harold JT Ellingham: A Chart Illustrating some of the Relations between the Branches of Natural Science and Technology. In "Divisions of natural science and technology", in The Royal Society Scientific Information Conference. 21 June-2 July 1948. Report and Papers Submitted, London: Burlington House, vol. 21, pp. 477–481. Source: University of Genf.
Ufficio del Capo di Stato Maggiore della Marina Ufficio Storico: Costruzione e riparazione del naviglio, approntamento ed impiego delle armi e materiale vario di guerra. Tavola 8. 1918. Source: Biblioteca Digitale Ligure
Fr. Gockel: Darstellung über die Verteilung der Konfessionen. Herausgeber: L. Geissendörfer; J Bielefeld's Verlag, 1880. Source: Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg.
Schematische Darstellung der Einwohnerzahlen und der Größe der Gemeindegebiete im rechtsrheinischen Regierungsbezirk Düsseldorf für das Jahr 1926. Aufgestellt im Oktober 1926. / A schematic representation of the population figures and the size of the municipal areas in the Düsseldorf administrative district on the right bank of the Rhine for the year 1926. Compiled in October 1926. Source: Landesarchiv Nordhein Wesfalen.
Distribution of the movement (growth/volume) of credit among different types of cooperatives. In Social Revolution and Finance: A Collection for the Third Congress of the Communist International / People's Commissariat of Finance. - Moscow: First Moscow Factory for Procurement of State Notes, 1921. Image courtesy of Russian State Library.
Hermann Kalkoff: Politische Kartentafeln zur Wahl der deutschen Nationalversammlung 1919 mit den Wahlergebnissen der Reichstagswahlen 1871 bis 1912 in den 37 Wahlkreisen des Deutschen Reichs. In "Hermann Kalkoff´s historischer Wahlatlas der deutschen Parlamente" mit einem Wahlaufruf der DVP zur Wahl der Nationalversammlung am 19. Januar 1919”. Imberg und Lefson, 1919. Source: Stadtarchiv Braunschweig
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That "Distribution of the movement" with the loopy bar charts is wild!!!
Wow. That Ellingham infographic!