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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.
8 cze 2014 · We have the numbers of Napoleon’s troops by location (longitude), organized by group and direction. We can plot it on line graphs like so. Next, the temperature experienced by his troops when winter settled in on the return trip. We also have the path that his troops took to and from Moscow.
22 mar 2019 · The Frenchman Charles-Joseph Minard’s figurative maps of the French army’s loss during Napoleon’s campaign against Russia in 1812-13 is one of the field’s classics. Research on data visualization. Graphs, charts and colorful maps.
Out of 422,000 men, crossing the Niemen in 1812 on their way to Moscow, only 10,000 returned alive to see the Niemen again. Drag the knob over the chart to explore their return march from Moscow.
26 cze 2024 · Here are the key elements of the graphic: Flow Width Representation: The width of the colored flows (tan and black) represents the size of Napoleon’s army at various points during the campaign. The tan flow shows the advance to Moscow, while the black flow represents the retreat.
The Napoleon infographic was among Minard’s last, but it was paired and printed with a similarly conceptualized work depicting Hannibal’s disastrous march from Spain to Italy.
6 kwi 2014 · Starting the march near Kowno with 422.000 men, (a number graphically described on the flow map by a large line, each millimeter of which corresponds to 6000 men), the French Army progressively lost soldiers while advancing through Belarus towards Moscow. The Russians defense strategy was to fall back and burn down villages, towns and crops ...
