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Anthony Starks @ajstarks.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I've updated the decksh tutorial to include example and bonus sections: speakerdeck.com/ajstarks/the...

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The decksh tutorial

A tutorial for decksh.

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Anthony Starks @ajstarks.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

The decksh tutorial: speakerdeck.com/ajstarks/the...

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Anthony Starks @ajstarks.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Map of the week. Military spending (map + decksh code)

World map showing military spending along with decksh code that renders it. The map also includes a horizontal bar chart showing spending from 916 billion (USA) to Japan (50.2). The colors for the countries denote the spending level (using HSV color codes)

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John Russell @drjohnrussell.com · 18/04/2026

#DuBoisChallenge2026 - Week 10, showing the proportion of Black Americans in a growing population through Reconstruction Code in #rstats: github.com/drjohnrussel...

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John Russell @drjohnrussell.com · 04/04/2026

Catching up on #DuBoisChallenge2026 from @datavizsociety.bsky.social (Week 7). It is interesting how this is an introduction and plea for continued work at the university in both English and French. Code in #rstats: github.com/drjohnrussel...

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Anthony Starks @ajstarks.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

#DuboisChallenge2026, Week 10: This chart shows the proportion of Blacks in total population of the US is compared from 1800 (one-fifth, 20%) to 1890 (one-eighth, 12.5%) The sizes are shown as superimposed maps: a land within another land.

A portrait oriented visual (originally 22x28 inches) with a manila
background with black text labeled in English and French: "PROPORTION OF NEGROES IN THE TOTAL POPULATION OF THE UNITED STATES." and "RAPPORT DES NÈGRE À LA POPULATION TOTALE DES ETATS UNIS." The visual shows four
maps of the US labeled 1800 (one-fifth), 1830 (one-sixth), 1860
(one-seventh), and 1890 (one-eighth). Each map has a smaller black map (population of Black people) enclosed in a map outlined in red
(overall population)

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Data Visualization Society @datavizsociety.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Today is Week 9 of the #DuBoisChallenge2026! Go to github.com/ajstarks/dub... to re-create the viz in this week’s folder. Share your work on social media with #DuBoisChallenge2026. Don’t forget to share it in the DVS Slack for a chance to win prizes!

A portrait oriented visual (originally 22x28 inches) with a manila
background with black text labeled in English and French: "NEGRO
POPULATION OF THE UNITED STATES COMPARED WITH THE TOTAL POPULATION OF
OTHER COUNTRIES." and "POPULATION NÈGRE DES ETATS UNIS COMPAREÉ À LA
POPULATION TOTALE DES AUTRES PAYS." The visual has a map of the US in
the middle, labeled NEGRO POPULATION 7,500,000 surrounded clockwise by
maps of AUSTRALIA (3,036,570), ESPAÑA (17,500,000), NEDERLANDEN
(4,500,000), LA BELGIQUE (6,000,000), HONGRIE (17,500,000), BAYERN
(5,800,000), ENGLAND (27,500,000) SUISSE (900,000), NORVÈGE
(2,000,917), SUÈDE (4,774,409).

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Data Visualization Society @datavizsociety.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Today is Week 4 of the #DuBoisChallenge2026! Go to github.com/ajstarks/dub... to re-create the viz in this week’s folder. Share your work on social media with #DuBoisChallenge2026. Don’t forget to share it in the DVS Slack for a chance to win prizes!

A portrait oriented visual (originally 22x28 inches) with a manila
background with black text titled: "Negro Population of Georgia by
Counties" showing two county maps of the state of Georgia. The maps
show the Black population in 1870 and 1880, The first 1870 map, is in
the upper left with categories in the upper right: 20-30,000
(purple), 15 to 20,000 (brown) and 10-15,000 (tan) The second 1880 map
is the lower right quadrant, with categories in the lower left:
5-10,000 (red), 2,500-5,000 (pink), 1,000-2,500 (yellow), under 1000
(green)

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Anthony Starks @ajstarks.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Michigan defeats UConn in the 2026 NCAA Men's Basketball Championship

Michigan 69, U Conn 63 the scorediff chart shows the scoring differential between the two teams

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John Russell @drjohnrussell.com · 05/04/2026

#DuBoisChallenge2026 week 8 - Du Bois showing the ways in which Black Americans were concentrated in the South during the Reconstruction. Done in #rstats Code: github.com/drjohnrussel...

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Anthony Starks @ajstarks.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

#DuboisChallenge2026, week 9: This chart of small multiples, compares the population of Blacks in America with various countries (Spain, Australia, Norway/Sweden, Belgium, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Hungary, Bavaria, and England).

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Anthony Starks @ajstarks.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

NCAA Final Four Score Diff Charts

Illinois (62) vs. Connecticut (71). Scorediff chart: top chart show scoring differential bottom chart shows culmulative score

Michigan (91) vs. Arizona (73) Scorediff chart: top chart show scoring differential bottom chart shows culmulative score

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Anthony Starks @ajstarks.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Inspired by #Artemis I recreated the Translunar/Transearth trajectory chart from Apollo 11 (the original is signed by Buzz Aldrin and Charlie Duke)

recreation of the apollo 11 translunar/transearth chart. It shows the position of the moon during July and August 1969, with a distance scale at50, 100, 150 and 200,000 nautical miles and the trajectory to and from the moon. Major events such as launch, splashdown, lunar landing are noted along with the timing of the events. Created with decksh

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Data Visualization Society @datavizsociety.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Today is Week 8 of the #DuBoisChallenge2026! Go to github.com/ajstarks/dub... to re-create the viz in this week’s folder. Share your work on social media with #DuBoisChallenge2026. Don’t forget to share it in the DVS Slack for a chance to win prizes!

A portrait oriented visual (originally 22x28 inches) with a manila
background with black, gray text, titled: "DISTRIBUTION OF NEGROES IN
THE UNITED STATES." The subtitle in French "DISTRIBUTION DES NÈGRES DAN
LES ETATS UNIS." The visual has a legend with five categories: less
than 1 (yellow), 8-15 (brown), and 15-25 (black). These measures are
labeled "Negroes to the Square Mile". Below the legend is a map of the
US States colored according to the categories.

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Data Visualization Society @datavizsociety.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Today is Week 7 of the #DuBoisChallenge2026! Go to github.com/ajstarks/dub... to re-create the viz in this week’s folder. Share your work on social media with #DuBoisChallenge2026. Don’t forget to share it in the DVS Slack for a chance to win prizes!

A portrait oriented visual (originally 22x28 inches) with a manila
background with black, gray and red text, titled: "A Series of
Statistical charts, illustrating the condition of the descendants of
former African slaves now resident in the United States of America".
The visual contains English (gray) and French text (red). In the
middle of the visual is a pie chart showing the occupation of students
of Atlanta University, color legends of the occupations in English and
French. Above the pie chart is a map of the continental US.

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Data Visualization Society @datavizsociety.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Today is Week 6 of the #DuBoisChallenge2026! Go to github.com/ajstarks/dub... to re-create the viz in this week’s folder. Share your work on social media with #DuBoisChallenge2026. Don’t forget to share it in the DVS Slack for a chance to win prizes!

A portrait oriented visual (originally 22x28 inches) with a manila background with black and gray text, titled "Land Owned by Negroes in Georgia, U.S.A 1870-1900." The visual is a map of the counties of Georgia, colored in red, green, blue, gray, brown, and yellow. Each county has a number depicting the Acres of land in each county.

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Data Visualization Society @datavizsociety.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Today is Week 2 of the #DuBoisChallenge2026! Go to github.com/ajstarks/dub... to re-create the viz in this week’s folder. Share your work on social media with #DuBoisChallenge2026. Don’t forget to share it in the DVS Slack for a chance to win prizes!

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Data Visualization Society @datavizsociety.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Today is Week 3 of the #DuBoisChallenge2026! Go to github.com/ajstarks/dub... to re-create the viz in this week’s folder. Share your work on social media with #DuBoisChallenge2026. Don’t forget to share it in the DVS Slack for a chance to win prizes!

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Data Visualization Society @datavizsociety.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

It's Week 1 of the #DuBoisChallenge2026! Go to github.com/ajstarks/dub... to re-create the viz in this week’s folder. Share your work on social media with #DuBoisChallenge2026. Don’t forget to share it in the DVS Slack for a chance to win prizes!

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Data Visualization Society @datavizsociety.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Today is Week 5 of the #DuBoisChallenge2026! Go to github.com/ajstarks/dub... to re-create the viz in this week’s folder. Share your work on social media with #DuBoisChallenge2026. Don’t forget to share it in the DVS Slack for a chance to win prizes!

A portrait oriented visual (originally 22x28 inches) with a manila
background with black and white text, titled "Migration of Negroes.
1890." The visual shows two maps of the continental US. first map is on
the top half of the sheet, labeled: "Present Dwelling place of Negroes
born in Georgia", and depicts the population of the state of Georgia,
colored back, with population of 798,747, with arrows pointing from
Georgia to the other states. The second map is the lower half of the
sheet and is labeled: "Birthplace of Negroes now resident in Georgia",
and depicts the population of the state of Georgia, colored back, with
population of 798,747, with arrows pointing from the other states to
Georgia. In both maps the each state contains a number denoting Black
population.

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Anthony Starks @ajstarks.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

#DuboisChallenge2026 Week 8: Yet another way to the distribution of Black people in America, this chart uses number of people per square mile, ranging from 15-15 in southern states like Georgia and Mississippi, to less than 1 person/square mile in the west and upper mid-west.

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Anthony Starks @ajstarks.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Map of the US showing prevalence of Sundown towns. #DuboisChallenge2026

Map of the US showing prevelance of Sun down towns.
Ranging from 200-300, 100-200, 500-100, 30-50, 20-30 and under 20. Also includes quotes and call outs from Eugene, OR, Oildale, Ca, Virginia Beach, Rock Springs, and Elwood IN.

Map of the US showing prevelance of Sun down towns. Ranging from 200-300, 100-200, 500-100, 30-50, 20-30 and under 20.
Also includes a horizontal bar chart of prevalence ranked from highest to lowest

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Anthony Starks @ajstarks.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

New Jersey Transit: Lines and Stations.

Map of NJ transit lines and stations. 1) a list of lines, a map showing the lines and stations, a color-coded list of stations.

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John Russell @drjohnrussell.com · 22/03/2026

#DuBoisChallenge2026 - took @datavisfriendly.bsky.social's advice and did two recreations of Du Bois' plate showing land ownership by Black Georgians. An original, and one showing the general increase in percentage of land ownership in certain areas Code in #rstats: github.com/drjohnrussel...

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xiongbiao.bsky.social @xiongbiao.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

#DuBoisChallenge2026 #Observable Challenge08: Distridution of Negroes in the United States.

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xiongbiao.bsky.social @xiongbiao.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

#DuBoisChallenge2026 #Observable Challenge01: The Georgia Negro

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xiongbiao.bsky.social @xiongbiao.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

#DuBoisChallenge2026 #Observable Challenge02: Relative Negro Population of the States of the United States

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Michael Friendly @datavisfriendly.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

#TodayinHistory #dataviz #OTD #DuBoisChallenge2026 📊 🎂Feb 23, 1868 W.E.B. Du Bois born in Great Barrington, MA, USA 🇺🇸 His collection of graphics on the Georgia Negro at the 1900 Paris Expo stand out for the range of technique & graphic ideas

Photo of Du Bois' exposition of the Georgia Negro at the Paris 1900 Expo

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Voilà: Francis Gagnon @chezvoila.com · 12/02/2026

The @datavizsociety.bsky.social organizes the Du Bois Challenge again this year. The hashtag is #DuBoisChallenge2026 or you can join the dedicated Slack channel of DVS 📊 Datasets are here: github.com/ajstarks/dub...

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xiongbiao.bsky.social @xiongbiao.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

#DuBoisChallenge2026 #Observable Challenge10: PROPORTION OF NEGROES IN THE TOTAL POPULATION OF THE UNITED STATES.

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xiongbiao.bsky.social @xiongbiao.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

#DuBoisChallenge2026 #Observable Challenge03/04: Negro Population of Georgia by Counties

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xiongbiao.bsky.social @xiongbiao.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

#DuBoisChallenge2026 #Observable Challenge09: NEGRO POPULATION OF THE UNITED STATES COMPARED WITH THE TOTAL POPULATION OF OTHER COUNTRIES.

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Eleonore @eleonore.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

When I saw in this year's #DuboisChallenge my nemesis from 2024, the double hemispheres map, I needed to try again! Then, I made a Mercator map with python 😓 and used a frame on Canva 👇🏿This year, I succeeded by implementing the Mollweide Interrupted projection with d3.js 🥳🌎🌍 #DuboisChallenge2026

My entry for challenge 4 of the Dubois Challenge 2024 which is a reproduction of Dubois' plate 01 (The Georgia Negro). I made the map with python and created the rest in Canva.

A screenshot of my Observable notebook where I recreated the map on Dubois' plate 01 with d3.js (Canvas) by reusing a code example that implemented the map projection Mollweide interrupted.

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xiongbiao.bsky.social @xiongbiao.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

#DuBoisChallenge2026 #Observable Challenge05: Migration of Negroes.

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xiongbiao.bsky.social @xiongbiao.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

#DuBoisChallenge2026 #Observable Challenge06: Land Owned by Negroes in Georgia, U.S.A.

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xiongbiao.bsky.social @xiongbiao.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

#DuBoisChallenge2026 #Observable Chllenge07: A SERIES OF STATISTICAL CHARTS, ILLUSTRATING THE CONDITION OF THE DESCENDANTS OF FORMER AFRICAN SLAVES NOW RESIDENT IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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John Russell @drjohnrussell.com · 15/03/2026

#DuBoisChallenge2026 - Week 5. Recreating Du Bois' map of the emigration and immigration of Black Georgians during years of Reconstruction requires using 'sf' in #rstats to make lines from the centroids of Georgia to each state, masked by the state's outline. Code: github.com/drjohnrussel...

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Jo Wood @jwolondon.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

#duboischallenge2026 Week 2. Original and @observablehq.com Plot recreation Hachures and watercolor effects via SVG styling of Plot marks: observablehq.com/@jwolondon/h... (subtle) hand-drawn edge style via sketchy plot: observablehq.com/@jwolondon/m... Typography: www.vocaltype.co/buy-du-bois

Original Plate from W.E.B DuBois's Paris 1900 Expo collection. Title at the top reads (in capital letters) "Relative negro population of the states of the United States" in black against a faded pale brown background. Below in the centre of the page is choropleth map of the conterminous US states colored mostly in light grey watercolor representing low black populations with other states towards the south and east in browns, reds and yellows representing higher categories of population counts. Below the map is a legend of the 10 categories arranged in two columns ranking population categories from under 10,000 (light grey) to 750000 and over (black).

Reproduction of the W.E.B DuBois's map. Title at the top reads (in capital letters) "Relative negro population of the states of the United States" in black against a faded pale brown background. Below in the centre of the page is choropleth map of the conterminous US states colored mostly in light grey watercolor representing low black populations with other states towards the south and east in browns, reds and yellows representing higher categories of population counts. Below the map is a legend of the 10 categories arranged in two columns ranking population categories from under 10,000 (light grey) to 750000 and over (black).

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Michael Friendly @datavisfriendly.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

I really love Du Bois' work and the #DuBoisChallenge2026. But I wonder why people seem to feel compelled to reproduce Du Bois' idiosyncratic (and frankly, #dataviz-awful) color palettes.

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John Russell @drjohnrussell.com · 24/02/2026

#DuBoisChallenge2026 Week 3 - just a nice little population map, done in #rstats Code: github.com/drjohnrussel...

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Eleonore @eleonore.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

I ended up recreating Dubois' plate 01 in Observable with d3.js (Canvas API) observablehq.com/@eleonore9/w... #DuboisChallenge2026 #dataviz #sciart

The result of recreating Dubois' plate 01 (The Georgia Negro) with d3.js in Observable. It includes a map of the "distribution of the Negro race" that includes two globe shaped hemispheres with black and brown polygons in America and Africa (and Pacific islands) and lines between the America and Africa showing the "routes of the African slave trade" and a star to locate "the State of Georgia".

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