DuBois Challenge: Recreating his innovative spiral graph, and animating it!

Revisiting DuBois’ data visualisation was a masterclass in innovative techniques for creating compelling visualisations which push the boundaries of “normal” visualisations while being intuitive to their intended audience.

Dataviz redo

Here’s my #TidyTuesday #DuBoisChallenge contribution. Brute force trigonometry got me there in the end!

Here’s DuBois’ original.

Here’s how I did ithttps://github.com/cararthompson/tidytuesdays/blob/main/scripts/202102_webdubois.R).

For a far more elegant approach with coord_polar(), see @ijeamaka_a’s solution

Animating it

This doesn’t quite fit with the brief of the #DuBoisChallenge, but I added some {gganimate}. Having lost a battle with nframes and fps, I used an online tool to speed it up and trim the white space.

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“DuBois Challenge: Recreating His Innovative Spiral Graph, and Animating It!” 2021. February 17, 2021. https://www.cararthompson.com/posts/2021-02-17-heres-my-tidy-tuesday-du-bois-challenge-contribution.