There are little '+' hovers on the image. I'm assuming you missed them. > Observe how the data visualization starts out like a normal line graph and then sharp

There are little '+' hovers on the image. I'm assuming you missed them. > Observe how the data visualization starts out like a normal line graph and then sharply tangents off in a series of colors that end in a generous spiral of red. "It literally looks like a piece of Modernist art," says Rusert. > The art of the data visualizations is partially what made the information so compelling. "We've now had it confirmed by a couple of different art historians that it seems like [Du Bois' team] were also developing novel and unique styles in order to grapple with and represent this data," says Rusert. Take the spiral design, she says. "it raises questions about why they were departing from these more geometric shapes in terms of representing data." > To Rusert, there's a lot of intent that can be read within the way the information is translated through the drop of the red spiral. "It sort of a reminds me of lynching and forms of racist violence that were happening during the period," she says. "It also reflects something about just the surreal nature of segregation itself, and what it meant for African-Americans to be living within this kind of regime that was wholly irrational and was also backward looking not forward looking."