The handmade beauty of Machine Age data visualizations

How William James, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Francis Galton thought with diagrams

The visual creativity of James is not just a clue about how his own mind worked. It’s also part of a larger shift in the culture of science during his generation: in the nineteenth century, design and the nascent world of big data came together, for the first time, to create the modern concept of data visualization