Analyzing and Recreating Data Visualizations of W.E.B. Du Bois

Abstract

Abstract In February 2021, Allen Hillery, Athony Starks, and Sekou Tyler, started the #DuboisChallenge,and annual online challenge where participants use modern data visualization toolssuch as R, Python, and Tableau, among others, to recreate the data visualizations by W.E.B.Du Bois. The challenge took place again in February 2022 and it was featuredin 2021 and 2022 as part of the weekly online data visualization event TidyTuesday( https://github.com/rfordatascience/tidytuesday ). This column presents examples of activities for the classroom that are inspired by the #DuBoisChallenge.