A history of data visualization and graphic communication /

• Main Author: Friendly, Michael (συγγραφέας.)
• Other Authors: Wainer, Howard (συγγραφέας.)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 2021.
• Subjects: Οπτικοποίηση πληροφοριών; Γραφικές μέθοδοι > Ιστορία; Οπτική επικοινωνία

Table of Contents:

• In the beginning...
• The first graph got it right
• The birth of data
• Vital statistics: William Farr, John Snow and cholera
• The big bang: William Playfair, the father of modern graphics
• The origin and development of the scatterplot
• The golden age of statistical graphics
• Escaping Flatland
• Visualizing time and space
• Graphs as poetry.