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's Revisioning Historical Grip
John playfair invented all the modern graphic forms, except for the scatter plot. He could not think of plotting one variable against another. We have a theme throughout the book called revisioning historical grasps. And so for example, john snow's grap we we create it in a modern form using a by vari density display.
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