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#Dubois Challenge 2025: Economics

#Dubois Challenge 2025: Economics

Recap of the Du Bois Challenge 2025

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Anthony Starks

June 01, 2025
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  1. 1: Feb 3 2: Feb 10 3: Feb 17 4:

    Feb 24 5: Mar 3 6: Mar 10 7: Mar 17 8: Mar 24 9: Mar 31 10: Apr 7 The Du Bois Challenge 2025: Economics
  2. Week 1 This fanciful chart uses literal bags of cash

    to depict the amount of land owned by Black Georgians. Starting in 1875, the value increased over 3 times by the end of century to $4.2 million (equivalent to $162.6 million in 2025)
  3. Week 2 “Acres of Land Owned by Negroes in Georgia”

    is a conventional bar chart with a twist. The chart shows the increase of land owned between 1874 (338,769 acres) and 1899 (1,023,741), with the red shape of the data echoing the map of Georgia
  4. Week 3 This choropleth map tracks the acres of land

    owned by Black people in Georgia, over thirty years, by county. The acreage ranges from 44,601 in Liberty County, to 130 acres in Fannin county.
  5. Week 4 “Valuation of Town and City Property Owned by

    Georgia Negroes” (one of the few line charts in the collection) shows a large growth of property owned from 1880-1895 (“Rise of the New Industrialism”). Note the other annotations of contemporary issues (“Financial Panic”, “Lynching”)
  6. Week 5 “Amassed valuation of all taxable property owned by

    Georgia Negroes”, shows growing economic strength from 1875 (5.3 million) to 1890 $13.4 million ($470.4 Million in 2025). Note the bold color palette and circular form, with the monetary values boldly piercing the circle pointing at its center.
  7. Week 6 This unconventional chart uses a “woven” pattern of

    horizontal and vertical bars to compare the property ownership of Black people from 1880-1899 in two cities in Georgia: Savannah and Atlanta. The value of property owned in Atlanta in 1898 was the highest at $1,308,955 (over $49 Million today)
  8. Week 7 One of the most famous Du Bois visualizations,

    the spiral “Assessed Value of Household and Kitchen Furniture Owned by Georgia Negroes” illustrates the power of ownership: the value of household goods began at $2,186 in 1875, blossoming to $1.4 million by the turn of the century. (over 640x increase)
  9. Week 8 “Occupation of Georgia Negroes” at first glance looks

    like a conventional bar chart, but it includes a line curved upon itself to denote a large data point — Agricultural workers, 98,400 (42.6% of the total). Also note the smaller categories, ranging from “Saw and Planing Mill Employees” to “Gardener and Florists” are summarized into a collective line.
  10. Week 9 “Occupations of Negroes and Whites in Georgia” is

    not quite an pie chart, but a “fan chart”, comparing the occupations of two groups. The chart is a good example of the typical Du Bois color palette.
  11. Week 10 The horizontal stacked bar charts shows how various

    social-economic groups spend their income among these categories: Rent, Food, Clothes, Taxes, and other expenses and giving. This visual is distinct in that it includes photographs along with the chart.
  12. #DuBoisChallenge2025 week 5 still with Matplotlib made me reconnect with

    a great artist, Sonia Delaunay about 15 years younger than W.E.B. Du Bois and from Ukraine nambona yanguere (@namboline.bsky.social)
  13. LinkedIn Impressions, Feb 3 - May 7 2025 Week 2

    13,931 Visuals 978 Week 3 636 Welcome 612 Week 4 579 Week 10 439 Week 9 386 Week 1 377 Week 6 352 Week 8 265 Week 5 257 Midpoint 215 Outro 218 Week 7 135
  14. References African American Photographs Assembled for 1900 Paris Exposition W.

    E. B. Du Bois's Data Portraits Black Lives 1900 Du Bois Visualization Style Guide Du Bois Challenge 2025 Re-creation repo Du Bois and Modern Data repo Credo Digital Library https://www.loc.gov/collections/african-american-photographs-1900-paris-exposition/ https://papress.com/products/w-e-b-du-boiss-data-portraits-visualizing-black-america https://www.artbook.com/9781942884538.html https://github.com/ajstarks/dubois-data-portraits/blob/master/dubois-style.pdf https://github.com/ajstarks/dubois-data-portraits/blob/master/challenge/2025/README.md https://github.com/ajstarks/dubois-data-portraits https://github.com/ajstarks/modern-dubois-viz https://github.com/ajstarks/modern-dubois-viz