a brief history of information graphics/infographics
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A brief overview of a few pioneers of information graphics with a few samples through time. From cave drawings to todayTRANSCRIPT
A Brief History of Infographics
Babylonian
Clay Tablet
500 BC
1st Printed: Edmond Halley’s Map Showing Prevailing Winds
1686
1875 First Daily Weather Map by Frances Galton
EarlyWeather Maps
William Playfair 1786Founder of Graphical Statistics
Invented
• Line graph• Bar Chart• Pie Chart• Circle graph
Dr. John Snow: London Cholera Epidemic 1854Snow combined map with data to plot cholera deaths to find source
Table of Universal History, Paris 1858.
Visual of the complete history of humankind, from Adam and Eve to1858. Individual cultures are depicted as rivers. Credit: Eug. Pick, 1858 Paris
http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2012/mar/16/infographics-data-visualisation-history
What’s Napoleon Got to Do With It?What’s Napoleon Got to Do With It?
Charles Minard, 1869
Charted the Complex Story of Napoleon’s Disaster
Otto Neurath 1925Forefather of the pictograms we see today
Fritz Khan 1926Visualizes human metabolism as a process of industrial production
Credit: Fritz Kahn. Stuttgart 1926 © von Debschitz
http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2012/mar/16/infographics-data-visualisation-history
Chart of Electromagnetic Radiations 1944The Lawrence Livermoore National Lab
Ridiculed as journalistic fast food
But most newspapers adoped the full-color, graphic-intensive look
Most imitated the Weather Map
1982 USA Today
Explaining War: World War I
Explaining War:
World War II
Still Explaining War:Costs of War
Still Explaining War:
Collateral Casualties2014
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Infographic Humour
Infographic Overload