📊 Flashback to 2012: when Data Analysis was entering a new era. No Copilot. No AI. Just clean visuals, calculated fields & intuition.🔍 This pic reminds me: Data storytelling has evolved.
#DataAnalytics #PowerBI #Tableau #DataViz #DataHistory #ThrowbackAnalysis
The idea that computers would help historians to produce cumulative knowledge is omnipresent in the early history of digital history. In the 1960s and 1970s, famous medievalists such as Léopold Génicot, Jean Glénisson or David Herlihy believed that these new technological devices would help in producing new type of source editions, adapted to the historiographical … „Edgar Lejeune: Is Cumulativity of Knowledge just an Epistemological Chimera? Perspectives from the History of Digital Medieval History (1960-2020)“ weiterlesen
Swedish physician and statistician Hans Rosling turned abstract development data into powerful visual stories. Through his Gapminder project, he animated global datasets on income, health, education, and population, showing how the world was improving in ways people didn’t expect.
His work democratized access to global development data and reshaped public understanding of poverty, life expectancy, and inequality.
Frances Kelsey, a physician and FDA scientist, analyzed clinical trial data on thalidomide, a drug promoted for morning sickness in pregnant women. She noticed insufficient safety data and refused to approve the drug in the U.S., despite heavy pressure from pharmaceutical companies.
Her scrutiny saved thousands of babies from severe birth defects, reinforcing the need for rigorous drug testing and leading to stronger FDA regulations on pharmaceuticals.
[#veille] #JuliaCagé et #ThomasPiketty livrent une vision inédite de l’#histoire #politique française (via @lemondefr )
https://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2023/09/05/julia-cage-et-thomas-piketty-livrent-une-vision-inedite-de-l-histoire-politique-francaise_6187990_3232.html
Avec des #archives (électorales) dedans, et la base de données mise à disposition : https://unehistoireduconflitpolitique.fr/
#élections #archivesélectorales #viepolitique #datahistory #donneeshistoriques #19esiècle #20esiècle #historicaldata #wedodata
@archivistodon @geneafr
Dans « Une histoire du conflit politique », les économistes publient une somme sur l’histoire électorale de la France. En fonction des revenus, du milieu social et du lieu d’habitation des votants, ils analysent les rapports de force – bipartition ou tripartition – qui dominent le champ politique et leurs liens avec les inégalités sociales.
Xavier Mareca
Digital History Berlin
PSDI
d'aïeux et d'ailleurs
UCLA CalRBS
Peter Binkley