Alan G. Gross
area
Area Charts
Atmospheric Cartography
Candice A. Welhausen
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charts
Choropleth Maps
Contracting Smallpox
Counterclockwise
Dasymetric Maps
data
Data Graphics
data visualisation history
De Foville
Derek Harnanansingh
Dianne Cook
epidemiological mapping
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evolution of scientific graphics
friendly
graphics
Howard Wainer
Infected Houses
Information Visualization
Interactive Statistical Graphics
John Hay Whitney Medical Library
Kevin Van Winkle
Lee E. Brasseur
maps
Marguerite Helmers
Mark Monmonier
Matthew Sigal
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Michael Friendly
Miles A. Kimball
Miles Kimball
Milestones Project
moral statistics
Natural Smallpox
Pie Chart
quantitative research methods
Rebecca E. Burnett
Robert Cook
Rose Diagrams
Scatterplot Matrix
statistical
Statistical Atlas
Statistical Graphics
thematic
thematic mapping
Trench Maps
Van Langren
Visible Numbers
visual rhetoric analysis
visualization
William Playfair
Worst American State
Product details
- ISBN 9781409448754
- Weight: 748g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 15 Dec 2015
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Bringing together scholars from around the world, this collection examines many of the historical developments in making data visible through charts, graphs, thematic maps, and now interactive displays. Today, we are used to seeing data portrayed in a dizzying array of graphic forms. Virtually any quantified knowledge, from social and physical science to engineering and medicine, as well as business, government, or personal activity, has been visualized. Yet the methods of making data visible are relatively new innovations, most stemming from eighteenth- and nineteenth-century innovations that arose as a logical response to a growing desire to quantify everything-from science, economics, and industry to population, health, and crime. Innovators such as Playfair, Alexander von Humboldt, Heinrich Berghaus, John Snow, Florence Nightingale, Francis Galton, and Charles Minard began to develop graphical methods to make data and their relations more visible. In the twentieth century, data design became both increasingly specialized within new and existing disciplines-science, engineering, social science, and medicine-and at the same time became further democratized, with new forms that make statistical, business, and government data more accessible to the public. At the close of the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first, an explosion in interactive digital data design has exponentially increased our access to data. The contributors analyze this fascinating history through a variety of critical approaches, including visual rhetoric, visual culture, genre theory, and fully contextualized historical scholarship.
Miles A. Kimball is Professor and Department Head of Communication and Rhetoric at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
Charles Kostelnick is Professor of English at Iowa State University, USA.
