2 The First Graph Got It Right

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction 1
4. 1 In the Beginning . . . 10
5. 2 The First Graph Got It Right 29
6. 3 The Birth of Data 44
7. 4 Vital Statistics: William Farr, John Snow, and Cholera 66
8. 5 The Big Bang William Playfair, the Father of Modern Graphics 95
9. 6 The Origin and Development of the Scatterplot 121
10. 7 The Golden Age of Statistical Graphics 158
11. 8 Escaping Flatland 185
12. 9 Visualizing Time and Space 199
13. 10 Graphs as Poetry 231
14. Learning More 251
15. Notes 259
16. References 277
17. Acknowledgments 291
18. Index 293