Complex Data Sets

Complex Graphics

The very first known 'plot' dates back to the 10-th century (VD-28: first known graph). This was about the same time that Guido of Arezzo was developing the two-dimensional musical staff notation very similar to the one we use today. In the 15-th century Nicolas of Cusa developed graphsÊ of distance versus speed. In the 17th century Rene Descartes established analytic geometry which was used only for the display of mathematical functions. But the main initiator for informative graphics was William Playfair (1759-1823) who developed the line, bar, and pie charts as we know them today.

 

Bayer
Chart of geological History

Births and deaths in Germany

Imperial Ethnicity

Orchestra Seating Plan

 

K.B.Smellie, Our Two Democracies at Work (US & UK) Harrap London 1944

 
L.S.Florence, Our Private Lives, Harrap London 1944
Gertrude Williams, Women and War, Nicholson and Watson, London 1945 (Adprint)
K.E.Holme, Two commonwealths (UK and USSR) Harrap London 1945
   
 

Also See:

PIE CHARTS and PICTOGRAPHS
shiralee saul 2002
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