Isotype and bar charts
Channel: Pino Trogu
Date: 29/08/2020

Project 1 for DES523 Information Design: Data visualization. San Francisco State University, Fall 2020. Introduction to the class and to the first project: Redesign of a data graphics published by the New York Times on July 13, 2019, about deportations in the US:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/13/opinion/sunday/trump-deportations-immigration.html 
The illustration in the New York Times (little men in rows) uses a technique invented by the Austrian philosopher Otto Neurath in 1920s Vienna. Read my article "Counting But Losing Count: the legacy of Otto Neurath’s Isotype Charts" (2018) in Visible Language: The Journal of Visual Communication Research.
http://static.trogu.com/documents/articles/neurath/VisibleLanguage-52-2-8-2018-p82-109-Trogu.pdf
The article "...probes Otto Neurath’s Isotype and concludes that counting rows of pictograms is not as effective for reaching a total as reading an arabic number."