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The bad boy of bar charts: William Playfair (2023)

• skeptrune 1y ago
  Something poetic about the guy who made bar and pie charts being a serial con artist
  • jihadjihad 1y ago
    With the ironic last name to boot
• ggm 1y ago
  Somebody should speak up to Florence Nightingale and her flame charts and stats visualisations. Heroine of operations research.
  • ctxc 1y ago
    https://blog.engora.com/2020/05/florence-nightingale-data-analyst.html https://blog.engora.com/2020/05/florence-nightingale-data-an... And he's done it five years back! Great blog, look at his other posts too
• curtisszmania 1y ago
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• ctxc 1y ago
  What a goldmine of a blog. Interesting find!
• layer8 1y ago
  Also, a quasi-Venn diagram of the German Empire on Pages 6–7 here: https://m-a.org.uk/resources/PE4LifeofPie.pdf https://m-a.org.uk/resources/PE4LifeofPie.pdf