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This project aims to replicate Minard's renowned visualization of Napoleon's March on Moscow, employing ggplot2 techniques for plot development, featuring troop movement, city locations, and temperature data integration.
19 paź 2016 · The depiction is a graph made by Charles Joseph Minard, a civil engineer and map maker in 19 th century France (below). The disaster was the loss of over 410,000 soldiers on Napoleon’s catastrophic march on Moscow in his ill-fated Russian Campaign of 1812.
26 maj 2014 · Generally considered as the first data visualization, the figurative map of Charles Joseph Minard (1869) shows the path of Napoleon’s troops across the Russian Empire of Alexander I. Using amazingly simple and modern graphical codes, this map displays the progress of the troops in the form of a stream whose width indicates the size of the ...
This example reproduces a famous historical flow map: Charles Joseph Minard’s map depicting Napoleon’s disastrously costly 1812 march on Russia during the Napoleonic Wars. This plot demonstrates building and using a custom matplotlib colormap.
Minard's Map of Napoleon's March. Creator. Charles Minard. Date of Creation. 1869. Source URL. upload.wikimedia.org. Description. Charles Minard's visualization depicting Napoleon's march on Moscow.
Charles Joseph Minard's graphic depiction of the fate of Napoleon's Grand Army in the Russian campaign of 1815 has been called the "greatest statistical graphic ever drawn" (Tufte, 1983).
Around this same time, another data visualization pioneer, Charles Joseph Minard, produced some of the most highly-regarded infographics ever made, including the 1869 illustration above of Napoleon’s march to, and retreat from, Moscow in the War of 1812. View it in a large format here.
