"NOW'S THE TIME"- CHARLIE PARKER
Honors 220 B: USING DATA SCIENCE TO FIGHT RACISM
Through examining the work of W.E.B. Du Bois as a scholar, civil rights activist, author, sociologist, public intellectual, & data scientist in his creation of the original 60 full-color "plates" (Paris Exhibition 1889) we will analyze data with social justice, history with modernity, & enliven data on current issues.
Pictured here is one of the data recreations-- in the style of DuBois but using modern data surrounding modern issues. I kept the same order of colors as DuBois' plate, 27; however, if I were to do this again, in true DuBois style, I would recreate it using colors relating to the history and culture of the people I'm documenting. In our class one Wednesday, we were examining a selection of modern data surrounding prisons in America. I saw the breakdown of prison population by ethnicity and noticed that it didn't include Indigenous Peoples / Alaskan Natives, so I found data that focussed on that from the US Census Bureau, highlighting Alaska. I did the two charts above in the style of "Occupations of Black People and White People in Georgia." Also, in these visualizations, I use the phrase "American Indian / Alaskan Native" to represent the Indigenous population, as that is the way the US Census has documented. However, that's one of several things I would do differently.