Michael Friendly and Howard Wainer, "A History of Data Visualization and Graphic Communication" (Harvard UP, 2021)
New Books in Science, Technology, and Society
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Playfair - The Wily Scoundrel
Playfair was a scoundrel but he had the idea of representing economic data in charts, line graps. He said if you want to look at a imports or exports over time, think of that as a stack of coins,. The next year, it's four billion pounds. How's that better than what this title is? But, and there are many others that would be better than the carrent title, but then, no, ok, but let me come back to the cover image after i talk a bit about playfair, if i can. Yes, can we do that?
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