Miles A. Kimball (Editor)
Charles Kostelnick (Editor)
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.
...MoreReview Jason Hansen (2018) Review of "Visible Numbers: Essays on the History of Statistical Graphics". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 150-151).
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Magnello, M. Eileen;
(2012)
Victorian Statistical Graphics and the Iconography of Florence Nightingale's Polar Area Graph
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Article
Clary, Renee M.;
Wandersee, James H.;
(2015)
The Evolution of Non-Quantitative Geological Graphics in Texts during the Formative Years of Geology (1788--1840)
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Bullynck, Maarten;
(2008)
Presentation of J. H. Lambert's Text “Vorstellung der Größen durch Figuren” (With Two Analyses of Lambert's Practice of Visual Strategies in His Experimental Studies)
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Article
Friendly, Michael;
(2008)
The Golden Age of Statistical Graphics
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Article
Mikkel Willum Johansen;
Josefine Lomholt Pallavicini;
(2022)
Entering the valley of formalism: trends and changes in mathematicians’ publication practice—1885 to 2015
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Griffin, David;
(2013)
Ut Pictura Poesis: Drawing into Space
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Article
R. Lee Lyman;
(2019)
Misunderstanding graphs: The confusion of biological clade diversity diagrams and archaeological frequency seriation diagrams
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Book
Short, John Rennie;
(2012)
Korea: A Cartographic History
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Book
Daston, Lorraine;
Galison, Peter;
(2007)
Objectivity
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Review
Stoliarova, Olga;
(2010)
Review of "Objectivity"
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Book
Fairman, Elisabeth R.;
Art, Yale Center for British;
(2014)
Of Green Leaf, Bird, and Flower: Artists' Books and the Natural World
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Book
Laura Vaughan;
(2019)
Mapping Society: The Spatial Dimensions of Social Cartography
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Essay Review
Pickstone, John V.;
(2009)
The Disunities of Representation
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Essay Review
Dear, Peter;
Hacking, Ian;
Jones, Matthew L.;
Daston, Lorraine;
Galison, Peter;
(2012)
Objectivity in Historical Perspective
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Chapter
Qureshi, Sadiah;
(2012)
Tipu's Tiger and Images of India in British Museums, 1799--2009
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Book
Case, Bettye Anne;
Leggett, Anne M.;
(2005)
Complexities: Women in Mathematics
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Article
N H Bingham;
W J Krzanowski;
(2022)
Linear algebra and multivariate analysis in statistics: development and interconnections in the twentieth century
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Beaud, Jean-Pierre;
Prévost, Jean-Guy;
(2007)
La dialectique du général et du particulier dans la statistique canadienne
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Martin-Pliego, F-J.;
Santos del Cerro, J.;
(2006)
Statistics Teaching in Spain
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Aubusson de Cavarlay, Bruno;
(2007)
Des comptes rendus à la statistique criminelle: c'est l'unité qui compte (France, XIXe-XXe siècles)
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