A Country's Extent as the Area of a Circle, the Weight of Its Tax as the Direction of a Dotted Line: Playfair's The Statistical Breviary, Chart 1
Series
10 pages
Classics of Data Visualization
Playfair's pie charts, Minard's map, statistical bureaus' thematic maps, Tukey's paper. Reading the charts and ideas that shaped today's forms of visualization.
The Same Square Miles, Drawn as the Area of a Circle and as the Angle of a Sector: Playfair in 1801 and 1805
Dividing the Size of the United States with One Circle: Playfair's 1805 "Divided Circle"
10,000 Men per Millimeter: Minard's 1869 Chart Drawing Napoleon's and Hannibal's Armies by the Same Rule
Semicircles for Length and Breakdown, Quarter-Circles for Density: The 1880 Transport Routes Map in the Album de statistique graphique
Six Circles Around a Country Chart the Growth of Railways: The 1880 Railway Development Map
What Was Statistics Translated As? Meiji Coinages and the 1889 Debate over the Character Rendering
Switching Inks at the Imperial Average: The German Imperial Statistical Office's Wheat-Yield Map (1905)
Data Analysis Is a Science: What Tukey Wrote to Mathematical Statistics in 1962
Drawing a Boston Merchant's Day as a Single Line: Allan Pred's Space-Time Path (1984)
