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The bad boy of bar charts: William Playfair (2023)
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engora.com
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bryanrasmussen
8 months ago
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skeptrune
8 months ago
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Something poetic about the guy who made bar and pie charts being a serial con artist
jihadjihad
8 months ago
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With the ironic last name to boot
ggm
8 months ago
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Somebody should speak up to Florence Nightingale and her flame charts and stats visualisations. Heroine of operations research.
ctxc
8 months ago
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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
ctxc
8 months ago
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What a goldmine of a blog. Interesting find!
layer8
8 months ago
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Also, a quasi-Venn diagram of the German Empire on Pages 6–7 here:
https://m-a.org.uk/resources/PE4LifeofPie.pdf
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