Attila Bátorfy

I like them after all

I would frame it and hang it on the wall. János Urbancsek: Profound Structure of Quaternary Sediments in the Hungarian Great Plain. 1965

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Geoviz 8.0.1 🥳

There is now an `earth` layer type that allows you to add NaturalEarth basemaps to make the maps look nicer. And you can now export the maps in svg (with organized layers) for publishing cartography. See github.com/riatelab/geo... #JavaScript #Spatial #Cartography #Maps

Still working on editing the paper, but thanks to @southarrowmaps.co.nz, we've now got a method that seems to work from any viewing angle, allowing animation doodles like this.

After six years of collecting, I've finally assembled a complete set of Isotype Institute-illustrated NEW DEMOCRACY books with the addition of "Full Enjoyment".

Here are some favorite details from each ...

Beach readings

A small present for me in Málaga. The first Spanish language treatise on the elements and methods of statistics, a translation from a Portuguese original by APF de Sampaio. 1841 (the mine is a facsimile) He was not a big fan of graphic presentation :)

"My Maps Speak" Minard's reflections on his useful idea, part 2.

"Not only do my maps speak, they count and they calculate for the eye." Minard on Playfair, today in Chartography www.chartography.net/p/my-maps-sp...

Table showing the various "retinal variables" of graphics -- position, size shape, orientation color -- in relation to their uses for points, lines, graphics

Photo of Jacques Bertin

#TodayinHistory #dataviz #Onthisday #OTD 📊
🎂Jul 27, 1918 Jacques Bertin born in Maisons-Laffitte, France 🇫🇷

1967: Semiologie Graphique, 1st comprehensive theory of graphical symbols and modes of graphics representation

➡️Inspiration for Grammar of Graphics, #rstats #ggplot

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Plano de las catacumbas de París (1857)
Puedes leer más sobre el mapa aquí: https://mapasmilhaud.com/mapas-antiguos/plano-de-las-catacumbas-de-paris-1857/
#Mapas #Maps

from L'homme et la terre by Élisée Reclus c.1905 gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/b...

Don’t tell me! Father and son day!

A bookshop in Málaga which sells almost only maps and map-related books. This is why I’m here.

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2. Unfortunately, I don't know anything about them yet, not even who drew them (probably a mix of Czech, Slovak, Hungarian, and Russian graphic artists).

Infographic paradise from the youth magazine Tudomány és Technika (Science and Technique) published in Hungarian but in Slovakia, Bratislava between 1954 and 1963. And this is just a "small" selection! 1. source adt.arcanum.com/hu/collectio...

📊 The Dispatch is back with a double edition and a tiny new feature for die-hard fans! You can now use a navigation bar for a quick overview or to go to your favourites. Topics include the Big Beautiful Bill, extreme weather, and animals from children's books. 🐰

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A monograph on the history of Russian information graphics and dataviz by Vladimir Laptev. download link www.researchgate.net/publication/...

A gallery view, with herbarium specimens in vitrines, drawings around the walls

Darwings of plants 224, 1919 chamone Hepatica Blasprant rilettin orylus Avellana aselus pilotlinies APRIL 26.1919 Anemone nepalica Hepatica The character of the DIe AePdUCe. JOr APRIL 237913 Corylus avellana Common filbert m carer lveliness and n Suppressed sentimentality

Drawings of three plants + roots, with three circular diagrams below / Vere I a 1919 75า9 Dagala oulgauis Jungrulin RileTlinen JUNE 1 193 Polygala vulgaris Common milkwort Caution Accuracy Tact Accuracy 10/ 1919 alickonvalie Convallaria majalis. Seum sisale detal, 22 RileT linin Convallaria majalis Lily of the valley Silence Innocence Strength JUNE 11, 1919 Geum rivale Water avens Submissiveness is acquired through Tact and Accuracy Humility and Accuracy

Various circular graphs + diagrams

Hilma af Klint's botanical drawings / spirit diagrams at MoMA 🥰

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Computation + Journalism 2025 call is live 🎉 In Miami Dec 11+12. Open to any in-progress work related to the theme of data journalism under autocracy (or other topics). Deadline 8/31. Journalists, academics, researchers, all welcome to submit. cplusj2025.com

Summer has begun, and once again everyone (incl. my family) thinks that this is the time for academics to hang around and do nothing but relax all day.

yeah :) A textbook from 150 years of Hungarian literature on data graphics + a long essay analysing the knowledge and discourses of the texts.

209 footnotes so far.

Message me if you want to collaborate/contribute to the SUMMER OF CLARITY series elevating historic writing about information communication.