Du Bois Visualization Challenge 01
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Recreating the the data visualization of W.E.B Du Bois from the 1900 Paris Exposition using modern tools. See the challenge presentation.
Setup
library(tidyverse)
library(sf)
library(janitor)
library(showtext)
library(glue)
font_add_google("Play", family = "dubois")
showtext_auto()
Data
Correcting a typo and reprojecting to UTM…
counties <- read_sf("data/DuBoisChallenge - Georgia Counties w 1870 & 1880 data.shp") |>
clean_names() |>
pivot_longer(starts_with("data"),
names_to = "year",
values_to = "pop",
names_pattern = "(\\d{4})") |>
mutate(pop = if_else(pop == "> 1000", "< 1000", pop)) |>
st_transform("EPSG:32617")
Map
counties |>
ggplot() +
geom_sf(aes(fill = pop),
key_glyph = "dotplot",
color = "#333333") +
facet_wrap(~ year) +
scale_fill_manual(
values = list(
"< 1000" = "#516253",
"1000 - 2500" = "#E7B14D",
"2500 - 5000" = "#E69A96",
"5000 - 10000" = "#DE324F",
"10000 - 15000" = "#CDAA8F",
"15000 - 20000" = "#744A33",
"20000 - 30000" = "#32295E"),
labels = c(
"under 1000",
"1,000 to 2,500",
"2,500 to 5,000",
"5,000 to 10,000",
"10,000 to 15,000",
"15,000 to 20,000",
"20,000 to 30,000"),
na.value = "#E3CFBC") +
guides(fill = guide_legend(keywidth = unit(13, units = "mm"),
reverse = TRUE)) +
labs(title = str_to_upper("Negro Population of Georgia by counties."),
subtitle = "",
fill = "",
caption = glue("https://r.iresmi.net/ - {Sys.Date()}
inspired by W.E.B Du Bois
data: https://github.com/ajstarks/dubois-data-portraits/tree/master/challenge/2024")) +
theme_void() +
theme(text = element_text(family = "dubois", size = 20, lineheight = .5),
plot.title = element_text(size = 25),
plot.background = element_rect(fill = "#E6D4C3", color = NA),
plot.margin = margin(0, .3, 0.1, .3, "cm"),
plot.caption = element_text(size = 10),
plot.caption.position = "plot",
strip.text = element_text(size = 20, hjust = 0.2))
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