Examples
Famous graphics were designed by:
- William Playfair who published what could be called the first pie chart and, in 1796, the well known diagram that depicts the evolution of England's imports and exports.
- Florence Nightingale, who used statistical graphics to persuade the British Government to improve army hygiene,
- John Snow who plotted deaths from cholera in London in 1854 to detect the source of the disease, and
- Charles Joseph Minard who designed a large portfolio of maps of which the one depicting Napoleon's campaign in Russia is the best known.
A special type of statistical graphic are the so called isotypes. These are graphical tools designed by Otto Neurath with the specific purpose of achieving changes in society through visual education of the masses.
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—Bernard Mandeville (1670–1733)
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—G.C. (Georg Christoph)