Formen
Beispiele für Graphen und Visualisierungen
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Erste abstrakte Formen der Datenvisualisierung, in Verbindung mit der Entwicklung statistischer Methoden. Sonst eher konkrete Grafik: Karten, Abbildungen.
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Johann Heinrich Lambert, William Playfair.
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Abstrakte Info-Grafik.
William Playfair, in his book The Statistical Breviary (1801), about abstract multivariate graphs:
The author of this work applied the use of lines to matters of commerce and finance about fifteen years ago, with great success. His mode was generally approved of as not only facilitating, but rendering those studies more clear, and retained more easily by the memory.
The present charts are in like manner intended to aid statistical studies, by shewing to the eye the sizes of different countries represented by similar forms, for where forms are not similar, the eye cannot compare them easily nor accurately.
Edward Tufte, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, Second Edition, page 45.
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Links
http://www.math.yorku.ca/SCS/Gallery/milestone/
Milestones in the History of Thematic Cartography, Statistical Graphics, and Data Visualization
http://www.karlhartig.com/chart/chart.html
Great portfolio of well-designed charts and other visualizations: U.S. Population Changes, Percentage of households using consumer electronics products from 1920 to 1998, Charting 100 years of the daily Dow Jones Industrial Average, Events and the economy contribute to people's opinions about president, consumer purchases by type of music and type of media, ...