A history of data visualization and graphic communication / Michael Friendly, Howard Wainer.
Material type: TextPublisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : Harvard University Press, 2021Copyright date: �2021Description: 1 online resource (308 pages) : illustrations (some color), color mapsContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 0674259033
- 9780674259034
- 9780674259041
- 0674259041
- Information visualization -- History
- Visual communication -- History
- Graphic methods -- History
- Visual analytics -- History
- Visualisation de l'information -- Histoire
- Communication visuelle -- Histoire
- M�ethodes graphiques -- Histoire
- Analyse visuelle -- Histoire
- SCIENCE / History
- Graphic methods
- Information visualization
- Visual analytics
- Visual communication
- 001.4/226 23
- QA76.9.I52 F74 2021eb
- QA76.9.I52
- ST 274
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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Statistical graphing was born in the seventeenth century as a scientific tool, but it quickly escaped all disciplinary bounds. Today graphics are ubiquitous in daily life. Michael Friendly and Howard Wainer detail the history of data visualization and argue that it has not only helped us solve problems, but it has also changed the way we think"-- Provided by publisher.
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