Pat uses R to recreate an iconic bullseye plot figure that WEB DuBois presented at the 1900 Paris Exposition showing the accumulated value of assets by Black Georgians using tools from the ggplot2, dplyr, and showtext packages. The functions he uses from these packages include aes, c, case_when, coord_radial, factor, font_add, format, geom_area, geom_text, ggplot, ggsave, labs, library, max, mutate, paste0, pivot_longer, scale_fill_manual, scale_x_continuous, scale_y_continuous, showtext_auto, showtext_opts, theme, tibble, and tribble. You can find the data and code he developed in this episode at https://www.riffomonas.org/code_club/2025-02-20-panel-22. Pat's newsletter describing how he would go about generating the OK GO figure can be found at https://shop.riffomonas.org/posts/when-it-comes-to-learning-data-viz-steal-like-an-artist. The book Pat mentions by Whitney Battle-Baptiste and Britt Rusert, titled "W.E.B. Du Bois's Data Portraits: Visualizing Black America" is available at https://amzn.to/4heJOWZ. A great set of talks about the DuBois data portraits is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZST1AZj-dQ&ab_channel=Tableau. The Anthony Starks GitHub repository can be found at https://github.com/ajstarks/dubois-data-portraits/. If you have a figure that you would like to see me discuss in a future newsletter and episode of Code Club, email me at pat@riffomonas.org!
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0:00 Introduction
5:59 Experimenting with making a bullseye plot
9:06 Making bullseye plot with DuBois data
14:25 Incorporating wedges into bullseye plot
25:35 Using DuBois color scheme
28:36 Adding year labels to rings
34:32 Adding valuation data to wedges
42:45 Create title and adjust appearance