{{alias}}( [options] ) Returns data for Charles Joseph Minard's cartographic depiction of Napoleon's Russian campaign of 1812. Data includes the following: - army: army size - cities: cities - labels: map labels - temperature: temperature during the army's return from Russia - rivers: river data Temperatures are on the Réaumur scale. Multiply each temperature by `1.25` to convert to Celsius. River data is formatted as GeoJSON. River data is incomplete, with portions of rivers missing. Parameters ---------- options: Object (optional) Function options. options.data: string (optional) Dataset name. Returns ------- out: Object|Array Minard's data. Examples -------- > var data = {{alias}}(); > var army = data.army [...] > var cities = data.cities [...] > var labels = data.labels [...] > var river = data.river {...} > var t = data.temperature [...] References ---------- - Minard, Charles Joseph. 1869. *Tableaux graphiques et cartes figuratives*. Ecole nationale des ponts et chaussées. - Wilkinson, Leland. 2005. *The Grammar of Graphics*. Springer-Verlag New York. doi:10.1007/0-387-28695-0. See Also --------