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

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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.

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Building Stories with Data

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February 17, 2021

Dataviz redo

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

A recreation of the DuBois spiral graph illustrating the value of household and kitcnen furniture.

Here’s DuBois’ original.

The original DuBois spiral graph illustrating the value of household and kitcnen furniture.

Here’s how I did it.

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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For attribution, please cite this work as:
Thompson, Cara. 2021. “DuBois Challenge: Recreating His Innovative Spiral Graph, and Animating It!” February 17, 2021. https://www.cararthompson.com/posts/2021-02-17-heres-my-tidy-tuesday-du-bois-challenge-contribution.