"Stephen E. Fienberg" returned 15 hits
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Improvements in instruments for accurately measuring positions of stars and planets, providing the most accurate catalog on which later discoveries (e.g., Kepler's laws) would be based
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Parallax diagram, Tycho Brahe's wall quadrant, Tycho Brahe portrait, Galileo project summary of Brahe, Tycho Brahe biography, Tycho Brahe "home page''
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Technology
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First modern complete demographic census, a record of each individual by name of the 3215 inhabitants of New France
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The great intendant: A chronicle of Jean Talon in Canada (e-book), Jean Talon biography from Statistics Canada, Commentary on first Canadian census by Dan
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Statistics & Graphics
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Use of statistics for international comparisons, e.g., London vs. Rome and London vs. Paris, compared in people, housing, hospitals, etc.
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Petty portrait
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Statistics & Graphics
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Development of the logistic curve, $ y = k / (1 + C e^)$, to describe the growth of human populations
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Verhulst bio, Pierre-Francois Verhulst et la loi logistique de la population, Verhulst portrait
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Statistics & Graphics
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First attempt to survey, describe, and illustrate available graphic methods for experimental data
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Marey portrait, Chronophotographical Projections, Cinema firsts: Marey, Pioneers in Aeromodeling: E. J. Marey, Etienne Jules Marey - Movement in Light (english), Google Books: La M'ethode Graphique
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Statistics & Graphics
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Comprehensive review of all available statistical graphics presented to the Statistical Society of London, classified as figures, maps, and solids (3D), perhaps the first mature attempt at a systematic classification of graphical forms
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Link to Levasseur's e-texts, Hi-res scan of Levasseur's La Statistique Graphique (15.6M), Four type of graphs illustrated by Levasseur, Area diagram comparing populations of countries to their colonies, Circle diagram of Infant mortality by month in Brussels, Population density in France in 1866
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Statistics & Graphics
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First anamorphic maps, using a deformation of spatial size to show a quantitative variable (e.g., the decrease in time to travel from Paris to various places in France over 200 years)
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Cheysson portrait, Several concentric versions of France representing relative travel time, Cheysson's Biography, Anamorphic Maps
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Statistics & Graphics
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Annual college course in statistical graphical methods
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Statistics & Graphics
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Numerous textbooks on graphics, describing principles of graphical presentation of numerical information (published at a rate of about two each year), e.g.,
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Statistics & Graphics
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Spate of articles on experimental tests of statistical graphical forms
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Graphical image used by Washburne: Income, Graphical image used by Washburne: Population of Florence
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Statistics & Graphics
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Spate of articles on experimental tests of statistical graphical forms
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Graphical image used by Washburne: Income, Graphical image used by Washburne: Population of Florence
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Statistics & Graphics
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Description of a memex, an associative information retrieval system which would help someone find information based in association and context rather than strict categorical indexing; conceptual creation of "hyperlink'' and the ''World Wide Web''
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Bush biography (with links and images), As We May Think (e-text):
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Technology
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The first well-known direct manipulation interactive system in statistics: allowed users to interactively control a power transformation in realtime for probability plotting
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Technology
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"Four-Fold Circular Display'' to represent 2 x 2 table
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Fourfold display, Stephen Fienberg portrait, Fienberg CV and portrait, Friendly (1994) paper (.ps.gz format)
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Statistics & Graphics
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A spate of development and public distribution of highly interactive systems for data analysis and visualization, e.g., XGobi, ViSta
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XGobi screen shot, Swayne portrait, ViSta - The Visual Statistics System, XGobi - multivariate visualization, Young portrait
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Technology
