Visualization of Numeric Data: A Brief Historical Overview

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Monday, October 29th, 2007 at 10:30 am

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“The history of the modern info-graph starts sometime in the 17th century, and was closely linked with the development of methods of statistical analysis (early graphs show simple distribution curves of statistical data.) But it wasn’t until the 18th century when data visualization really took off, and people started to develop methods that we still use today.”

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