#TodayinHistory #dataviz #Onthisday #OTD 📊 🎂Jul 20, 1889 Vladimir Kosma Zworykin born in Murom, Russia 🇷🇺 1923: He invented the iconoscope television camera-tube.

#dataviz #history📊 From the US Statistical Album of 1870 under Francis A. Wlaker, this interesting pie-area chart of blindness by gender, nativity and color in the US states [Description in ALT]

#TodayinHistory #dataviz #Onthisday #OTD 📊 💀Jul 18, 1650 Christopher Scheiner died in Niesse, Poland 🇵🇱 1626: Visual representations used to chart the changes in sunspots over time, the first known use of small multiples, giving a sense of animation

#TodayinHistory #dataviz #Onthisday #OTD 📊 🎂Jul 17, 1837 Wilhelm Lexis born in Eschweilier, Germany 🇩🇪 1875: The Lexis diagram, showing relations among age (cohort), calendar time, and life spans of individuals simultaneously. Makes key demographics visible

Any #rstats font experts or friends out there? I'm looking for fonts to use to try to reproduce the famous 1D dotplot of Michael Florent van Langren (1664), using common R font tools-- showtext 📦... There seem to be at least 2 fonts-- the SmallCaps one used for most labels, script one for names

📽️New movie release: Planet of the Dopes "Orange Trump Slime Covers Toronto, Ignoring Climate Change"

#TodayinHistory #dataviz #Onthisday #OTD 📊 💀Jul 14, 1865 Benjamin Gompertz died in London, England 🇬🇧 1825: Gompertz curve, derived to describe expected mortality statistics for a population whose probability of death increases as a function of time 👀 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gompert...

The French are so good with signs

#rstats {statsquotes} Quote of the Day "Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and you lose a, consulting job forever." --- Howard Wainer, 2016

#TodayinHistory #dataviz #Onthisday #OTD 📊 💀Jul 11, 1382 Nicole Oresme died in Lisieux, France 🇫🇷 ~ 1350: proposed the use of a graph for plotting a variable whose value depends on another; implicitly, the idea of a coordinate system (If he had data, we might have had graphs 400 years b4 Playfair)

Emile Levasseur: 📊 An 1876 cartogram of national budgets in European countries. (I don't know of an earlier cartogram) 📊1885 Area diagrams / bar charts showing the populations of colonies of European countries

#TodayinHistory #dataviz #Onthisday #OTD 📊 💀Jul 10, 1851 Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre died in Bry-sur-Marne, France 🇫🇷 1839: Invention of the first practical photographic process, using coated plates of metal and glass

#TodayinHistory #dataviz #Onthisday #OTD 📊 📅Jul 09, 1831 Adolphe Quetelet named the "Average Man", creating a new view of the distribution of human traits and capabilities, and providing a basis of human statistics Height & weight, yes, but also allowed to think of propensity to crime across ages

#TodayinHistory #dataviz #Onthisday #OTD 📊 💀Jul 08, 1695 Christiaan Huygens died in The Hague, Netherlands 🇳🇱 1657: 🥇1st text on probability 1669: 🥇1st graph of a continuous distribution function, a graph of Gaunt's life table

Ugh! HUMAN VERIFICATION FAILED 😭😢 I could pass all the ones about busses and motorcycles, but I'm up against a mountain with WebRTC, whatever the fuck that is

Visualizing my index to check coverage

Bertillon introduced the first standardized system of causes of death,and made many statistical charts and maps. This lovely one shows movement of travellers through Paris, using flow lines overlaid on the city map, bar charts and a pie chart legend.

#TodayinHistory #dataviz #Onthisday #OTD 📊 💀Jul 07, 1922 Jacques Bertillon died in Valmondois, France 🇫🇷 1896: Use of area rectangles on a map to display two variables and their product (height=population of arrondisements in Paris, width=percent foreigners; area = total number()

#TodayinHistory #dataviz #Onthisday #OTD 📊 💀Jul 06, 1476 Johannes Müller von Königsberg (Regiomontanus) died in Papal States Italy 🇮🇹 In 1464, his book De triangulis omnimodis was one of the first textbooks presenting the current state of trigonometry for use in astronomy

#TodayinHistory #dataviz #Onthisday #OTD 📊 🎂Jul 03, 1811 Léon Lalanne born in Paris, France 🇫🇷 An engineer of @EcoledesPonts, Lalanne made numerous contributions to the graphic method

Guerry asked: Is crime related to education? What do you think? Guerry's data & maps in my Guerry #rstats 📦https://friendly.github.io/Guerry/

#TodayinHistory #dataviz #Onthisday #OTD 📊 🎂Jul 02, 1840 Francis Amasa Walker born in Boston, MA, USA 🇺🇸 His work on the 1870-1890 U.S. national statistical atlas produced many innovations in graphic design and techniques

#TodayinHistory #dataviz #Onthisday #OTD 📊 🎂Jul 02, 1937 John Hartigan born in Sydney, Australia 🇦🇺 Among other things, he invented the mosaic display (1981) and scatterplot matrix (1975) A great teacher; I learned a lot from him; inspired my interest in #dataviz

Chernoff face display of data on each of the US states. From: Flowingdata, flowingdata.com/2010/08/31/h...

#TodayinHistory #dataviz #OTD 📅 Jun 30, 1812 Pierre Simon Laplace presented his analytical theory of probabilities to the Academy of Sciences, a milestone in mathematical statistics

William Oughtred, portrait with slide rule

#rstats #dataviz Interesting modeling graphic: demonstrate the relative importance of (groups of) predictors from a regression model using general dominance weights; by @ajthurston.com ajthurston.com/dominance

#TodayinHistory #dataviz #OTD 📊 💀Jun 28, 1598 Abraham Ortelius died in Antwerp, Spanish NL In 1570, he published Theatrum Orbis Terrarum--the first modern atlas. It was a compilation of 53 maps with uniform style & accompanying text. They provided a comprehensive view of the known world.

#TodayinHistory #dataviz #Onthisday #OTD 📊 💀Jun 28, 1974 Vannevar Bush died in Belmont, USA 🇺🇸 In 1939, he described a memex, an associative information retrieval system; this was the conceptual creation of 'hyperlink', allowing navigation within/between documents --> World Wide Web

Presidential Venn Diagram