The handmade beauty of Machine Age data visualizations
Benjamin Breen
The handmade beauty of Machine Age data visualizations
How William James, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Francis Galton thought with diagrams
I spent last week at Harvard doing research in the archives of William James, the psychologist, philosopher, psychical researcher, brother of Henry James, and all around interesting person. He was a brilliant, charming, self-defeating, deeply strange man (exhibit A: he believed taking a high dose of nitrous oxide helped him finally understand Hegel). That mixture of.