Intro text: reading and ing the data as a historian
Reading¶
Some thistorical context about visualisations, statistics and the political and economic context of Playfair’s time
(Remaks and caveats in working with Playfair historical sources: 18th commercial statistical data)
Read the original text
Thinking visually¶
Reconstructing the dataset and graphs with Python (modern)
emulating the information display and aesthetics of the end of the 18th century
Exploring the dataset (any pattern in the discrepancies?)
Analising as a historian¶
interpreting the discrepancies between data and sources historically
gathering explanations for the little impact of Playfair’s graphs in the 19th century (hopefully)