The handmade beauty of Machine Age data visualizations
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How William James, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Francis Galton thought with diagrams
The handmade beauty of Machine Age data visualizations How William James, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Francis Galton thought with diagrams Benjamin Breen Apr 22, 2026 57 9 14 Share I spent last week at Harvard doing research in the archives of William James, the psychologist, philosopher, psychical researcher, brother of Henry James, and all around interesting person. He was a brilliant, charming, self-defeating, deeply strange man (exhibit A: he believed taking a high dose of nitrous oxide helped him finally understand Hegel ). That mixture of qualities comes across vividly in his papers. What doesn’
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