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Recreating the the data visualization of W.E.B Du Bois from the 1900 Paris Exposition using modern tools.
https://github.com/ajstarks/dubois-data-portraits/tree/master/challenge/2024
< section id="config" class="level2">Config
library(tidyverse) library(sf) library(janitor) library(showtext) library(glue) _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), 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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