From the presentation: "In our class Drawing the Social: Data Visualizations in the 19th and 20th Centuries we went on a journey to explore the history of information graphics in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. As part of a history of knowledge, we asked ourselves what knowledge – past or present – looked like when it was put into visual form. We wanted to understand how information about the social world, about people and their deeds, their movements, their ways of living and eating, their history and education, and so forth, were translated into images. What could lines, colors, dots, maps, and graphs tell us about demographics, political systems, social facts, or historical events? And did these visual representations of social phenomena maybe change the way we thought about them?"