a brief history of information graphics/infographics

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A Brief History of 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 today

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A Brief History of Infographics

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Babylonian

Clay Tablet

500 BC

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1st Printed: Edmond Halley’s Map Showing Prevailing Winds

1686

1875 First Daily Weather Map by Frances Galton

EarlyWeather Maps

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William Playfair 1786Founder of Graphical Statistics

Invented

• Line graph• Bar Chart• Pie Chart• Circle graph

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Dr. John Snow: London Cholera Epidemic 1854Snow combined map with data to plot cholera deaths to find source

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What’s Napoleon Got to Do With It?What’s Napoleon Got to Do With It?

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Charles Minard, 1869

Charted the Complex Story of Napoleon’s Disaster

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Otto Neurath 1925Forefather of the pictograms we see today

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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

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Chart of Electromagnetic Radiations 1944The Lawrence Livermoore National Lab

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Ridiculed as journalistic fast food

But most newspapers adoped the full-color, graphic-intensive look

Most imitated the Weather Map

1982 USA Today

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Explaining War: World War I

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Explaining War:

World War II

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Still Explaining War:Costs of War

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Still Explaining War:

Collateral Casualties2014

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http://popchartlab.com/products/the-very-many-varieties-of-beer

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Infographic Humour

Infographic Overload