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 Apocryphal Story
It was more of the latter they did not draw their water from a particular from the popular jump. They did not drink the water from around there, i think th did the brewery draw its water from another source? Or just the promcess of fermentation took care of the cholera? Wellit was, itwas, it was more than that. The apocryphal story is that when he made that dot map and realized that the bulk of the of the deaths were clustered around the broad street pump,. He went there and removed the handle from the pump, and bingo, overnight, cholera subsided natreel. No, it's not, it'snot a good
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