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> in the early 90's, hipsters of that time decided that graphs weren't cool enough, and called them charts I'd always thought that was to not confuse with grap
by brey 13y ago
> in the early 90's, hipsters of that time decided that graphs weren't cool enough, and called them charts
I'd always thought that was to not confuse with graph theory.
- tgb 13y agoThe article appears to be a little confused on the historical use of words like chart and graph, so I wouldn't take anything they say seriously on that part. It's just a catchy introduction, presumably. http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=chart%2C+plot%2C+graph%2C+infographic&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share= http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=chart%2C+plot%2...
- ulisesrmzroche 13y agoWhy should we take them seriously as a whole if they don't even know this basic history?
- cyrillevincey 13y agoI'm referring to the actual use of those words in the business everyday life to refer to a business 'chart', not to the use of those words in general. Of course the words "graph", "chart" or "data visualization" did not suddenly pop up at specific moment in the recent history. In your analytics, "graph" might relate to graph theory, linguistic, or music.