data visualization design Data by Design

Final version forthcoming in print and online from The MIT Press in Fall 2025.

Please contact the project director, Lauren Klein, with any additional questions.

Cite as

Lauren Klein, Tanvi Sharma, Jay Varner, Shiyao Li, Margy Adams, Nicholas Yang, Dan Jutan, Jianing Fu, Anna Mola, Zhou Fang, Yang Li, and Silas Munro. Data by Design: An Interactive History of Data Visualization, 1789-1900. 2024 public beta.

Data by Design has been designed and developed by the Emory Digital Humanities Lab in collaboration with the Emory Center for Digital Scholarship and Polymode.

This project has been generously funded by a 2018-2019 NEH-Mellon Fellowship for Digital Publication (FEL-257658-18), a 2021-2022 NEH Office of Digital Humanities Advancement Grant (HAA-281011-21), and an open access publication grant from Emory's Digital Publishing in the Humanities initiative, which is supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Emory College Office of Faculty, and the Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry.

Additional research for this project was completed through fellowships from the American Antiquarian Society and the Library Company of Philadelphia, and the assistance of the Archives and Collections Department at The Rooms."

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