Visualization "Rulers of the World" - Kazakh Khanate

Rulers of Kazakh Khanate (dark/light color schemes, PNG/SVG extensions)

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Introduction

Recently I saw an old infographic visualization about Roman emperors prepared by Peter Gorman, from BarelyMaps for the #dataisbeautiful weekly contest on reddit. So, here is my version for rulers of the so-known Kazakh Khanate, a successor state of the Golden Horde in the region, in dark and white colors. Palette isn't web-safe or grayscale-safe. The reference chart by Peter is in comments.

As usual, I reproduced it with pure #python and #matplotlib to make it scalable to other countries and historical periods (which one would you like to see?). Chart type is... stripe chart?! Each stripe represents a year of the respective century. Solid stripes indicate there was only one ruler in that year, which presumes times of relative stability. Segmented stripe shows there were many rulers in that year, which usually signifies a vacuum of power, forms of split of power including co-rule, unrest, civil wars, or other forms of instability. Using the table below as a legend we can match each ruler with their respective colors and years of reign.

#dataviz #datavisualization #Казахстан #Kazakhstan #History #CentralAsia

Learn more about this historical state (khanate, nomadic polity) in History of Kazakh Khanate (animated map), from Anwoo Mapping History.

This is a pretty unusuas visualization to show a timeline with nested elements, but for futher and interactive inspiration you can also check Bartosz Ciołek's work in English Kingdom.

Recently I saw an infographic on Roman emperors by Peter Gorman and his BarelyMaps, It's a pretty unusual visualization so recreated it and interpreted it for the Kazakh Khanate.
The chart is generated with Python and matplotlib and designed to scale to other historical periods.

Yevtushenko, V. (2024). Project “Rulers” - Kazakh Khanate. Witold's Data Consulting.
https://witold1.github.io/blog/posts/project-country-rulers/post.html

@misc{witold_blog_viz-rulers-of-kazakh-khanate,
  author = {Yevtushenko, Vitaliy},
  title = {{Visualization "Rulers of the World" - Kazakh Khanate}},
  year = {2024},
  url = {https://witold1.github.io/blog/posts/project-country-rulers/post.html},
}