Michael Friendly and Howard Wainer, "A History of Data Visualization and Graphic Communication" (Harvard UP, 2021)
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A History of Graphical Communication
The idea of trying to think visually is one of the key things that we've inherited from this long history. The title of our book is a history of dative visualization and gragraphic communication. And as a cognitive psychologist, i want to understand how john snow had the idea to plot incidents of death in the cholera outbreak. But francis galton also a siu ta time, time, time framed. So 18 18 86 is regression. You look at your weather map in the newspaper to day, no barometric pressure or contours of high pressure low pressure. It was galton who discovered that.
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