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Authors: Edmund Gunter (1581-1626) & William Oughtred (1574-1660)
Invention of a mechanical device, containing a logarithmic scale of equal parts and trigonomic functions which, with the aid of a pair of calipers, could be used as a slide rule. This device, called "Gunter's scale,'' or the "gunter'' by seamen, was soon replaced by a true slide rule, containing two parallel logarithmic scales
Category: Technology
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Author: William Petty (1623-1687)
The first large scale attempt at a scientific, economic survey (of the Irish estates confiscated by Oliver Cromwell), perhaps the first econometric study, leading to development of political arithmetic
Category: Cartography
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Author: William Petty (1623-1687)
Use of statistics for international comparisons, e.g., London vs. Rome and London vs. Paris, compared in people, housing, hospitals, etc.
Category: Statistics & Graphics
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Author: William Playfair (1759-1823)
Bar chart, line graphs of economic data
Category: Statistics & Graphics
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Author: William Playfair (1759-1823)
Invention of the pie chart, and circle graph, used to show part-whole relations
Category: Statistics & Graphics
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Author: William Smith (1769-1839)
The first large-scale geological map of England and Wales, setting the pattern for geological cartography, and founding stratigraphic geology. Recently called (hyperbolically) "the map that changed the world'' cite{Winchester:2001}. (Smith's map was first drawn in 1801, but the final version was not published until 1815.)
Category: Cartography
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Author: Florence Nightingale (1820-1910)
Polar area charts, known as "coxcombs'' (used in a campaign to improve sanitary conditions of army)
Category: Statistics & Graphics
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Author: William Stanley Jevons (1835-1882)
Semilogarithmic grid (showing percentage changes in commodities)
Category: Statistics & Graphics
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Author: William Stanley Jevons (1835-1882)
Published instructions on how to use graph paper
Category: Technology
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Author: William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868-1963)
At the Paris Exposition in 1900, W. E. B. Du Bois compiled an exhibit of hundreds of graphs and photographs depicting the history of Negroes in America, including over 60 statistical charts, graphs and maps.
Category: Statistics & Graphics
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Author: Alban William Housego Phillips (1914-1975)
The "Phillips Curve,'' a scatterplot of inflation vs. unemployment over time shows a strong inverse relation, leading to important developments in macroeconomic theory
Category: Statistics & Graphics
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Authors: Beat Kleiner & William S. Cleveland
Enhancement of scatterplot with plots of three moving statistics (midmean and lower and upper semimidmean)
Category: Statistics & Graphics
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Authors: William S. Cleveland & Richard A. Becker (1887-1955)
Interactive statistical graphics, systematized: allowing brushing, linking, other forms of interaction
Category: Statistics & Graphics