2016年10月2日 星期日

infographic


infographic

NOUN

  • A visual representation of information or data, e.g. as a chart or diagram.
    ‘a good infographic is worth a thousand words’

Origin

1960s (as adjective): blend of information and graphic.


Two hundred years later, you can't click a link without stumbling upon some kind of data visualization.

When he wasn't blackmailing lords and being sued for libel, William Playfair invented the pie chart, the bar graph, and the line graph.
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William Playfair - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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William Playfair (22 September 1759 – 11 February 1823) was a Scottish engineer and political economist, the founder of graphical methods of statistics. William ...

William Playfair and the Beginnings of Infographics - yovisto ...

blog.yovisto.com/william-playfair-and-the-beginnings-of-infographics/
Sep 22, 2014 - On September 22, 1759, Scottish engineer and political economist William Playfair was born. He is generally considered the founder of ...









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Is there an ideal age to write a masterpiece? - infographic


Douglas Adams found instant celebrity aged 28, Tolkien didn’t publish until he was 46 and Philip Pullman had written 11 books before his triumph with Northern Lights. In an infographic compiled from the BBC Big Read and the top-selling authors from 2001- 2014,BlinkBox Books investigates when authors wrote their most famous works

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