Open notebooks for Du Bois Does Data, a Radical Imagination project. They follow Black American life from W.E.B. Du Bois's data portraits at the 1900 Paris Exposition to 2025, using public U.S. government data.
Each notebook starts with a table of its data sources (Library of Congress, U.S. Census, Bureau of Labor Statistics) and runs from start to finish. Click a badge to open a notebook in Google Colab; nothing needs installing.
| Notebook | Open |
|---|---|
| 1. Population and Demographics |  |
| 2. Educational Attainment | |
| 3. Occupation Data | |
| 4. Income and Property Wealth | |
| 5. The Du Bois Assessment, 125 Years of Progress | |
| 6. Enhanced Visualizations | |
- The figures are typed into the notebooks with their citations, rather than downloaded when you run them.
- Notebook 6 is saved without its outputs to keep it small. Run All rebuilds the animations and interactive dashboards.
Made by Radical Imagination, a cultural technology studio in Queens. "A people's art is the genesis of their freedom." Claudia Jones, 1959.