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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The Phillip's Curve - The History of Data Visualization
The phillip's curve is obviously a very important topic right now in the economy, and i'll tell two stories. The first guy who treats data visualization as as an historical topic is funk houser. In 19 36, that i was still sort of a landmark work. But nobody thought to try to up date that. So i began what i call the milestones project. Its data viz dose slash milestones. You have a story as how you got interested in data, visual you're a data scientist, effectively a psychologist, but very concerned about how people react to data.
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