Milestones in the History of
Thematic Cartography,
Statistical Graphics,
and Data Visualization 		Name and Term Index
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Name and Term Index (showing section)

3D, 4.0, 6.0

Abbott, Edwin A., 6.0
Achenwall, Gottfried, 4.0
adding machine, 3.0
age pyramid, 6.0
Aiken, Howard H., 7.0
Alexandria, Egypt, 2.0
alignment diagram, 6.0
American Society of Mechanical Engineers, , 7.0
American Statistical Association, , 7.0, 9.0
analysis of variance, 7.0
analytic geometry, 3.0
anamorphic map, 6.0
Anderson, Edgar, 7.0, 8.0
Andrews, David F., 8.0
Angeville, Adolphe d', 5.0
annuity, 3.0
Antwerp, Belgium, 2.0
Arbuthnot, John, 4.0
Asimov, Daniel, 9.0
atlas, 2.0, 5.0, 6.0
atomic number, 7.0
Austria, 7.0
Ayres, Leonard Porter, 7.0

Babbage, Charles, 5.0
Bachi, Roberto, 8.0
Backus, John, 8.0
Balbi, Adriano, 5.0
bar chart, 4.0, 5.0, 6.0, 7.0
bar graph, 5.0, 7.0
Barabba, Vincent P., 8.0
Barbeu-Dubourg, Jacques, 4.0
Barnard, George, 8.0
Bayes, Thomas, 4.0
Beaune, France, 4.0
Beck, Henry C., 7.0
Becker, Richard A., 9.0
Belgium, 2.0, 5.0, 6.0
Bell Laboratories, 8.0
Bell Labs, USA, 8.0, 9.0
Berger, Hans, 7.0
Berghaus, Heinrich, 5.0
Bernoulli, Jacob, 4.0
Bertillon, Alphonse, 6.0
Bertillon, Jacques, 6.0, 7.0
Bertin, 9.0
Bertin, Jacques, 8.0
beta density, 4.0
Biderman, Albert D., 8.0
binomial distribution, 4.0
biplot, 8.0
bivariate data, 4.0
bivariate plot, 3.0
Booth, Charles, 6.0
Boscovich, Rogerius Josephus, 4.0
Boston MA, USA, 6.0
Bowditch, Henry Pickering, 6.0
boxplot, 8.0
Brahe, Tycho, 2.0
Brinton, Willard Cope, 7.0
brushing, 9.0
Buache, Phillippe, 4.0
Budapest, Hungary, 7.0
Buja, Andreas, 9.0
Bureau of the Census, , 9.0
Bush, Vannevar, 7.0
butterfly diagram, 7.0
Buxton, Dr., 4.0

calculator
     mechanical, 3.0
camera obscura, 2.0
Canada, 3.0, 8.0, 9.0
Card, Stuart K., 9.0
Cardano, Gerolamo, 2.0
Carla-Boniface, Marcellin du, 4.0
cartogram, 6.0
Catalan Atlas, 2.0
categorical data, 9.0
census, 3.0, 6.0, 8.0
Chambers, John M., 9.0
Charpentier, Johann Friedrich von, 4.0
chart
     correlation, 6.0
     Gantt, 7.0
     polar, 5.0, 6.0
     regression, 6.0
chartbook, 7.0, 8.0, 9.0
Chernoff, Herman, 8.0, 9.0
Cheysson, Émile, 6.0, 7.0
Chicago, USA, 7.0
China, 2.0
Chladni, Ernest Florens Friedrich, 4.0
choropleth map, 5.0
circle graph, 5.0
Cleveland, William S., 9.0
computing
     mechanical, 5.0
contingency table, 9.0
contour, 4.0
contour map, 4.0, 5.0, 6.0
Cook, Di, 9.0
coordinate paper, 4.0, 5.0
coordinate system, 2.0
coordinates
     Cartesian, 4.0
     parallel, 6.0, 9.0
     polar, 3.0, 4.0, 5.0, 6.0
     rectangular, 2.0
     trilinear, 6.0
coplot, 9.0
correlation, 6.0
correlation diagram, 6.0, 9.0
correlation surface, 6.0
Costelloe, Martin F. P., 7.0
coxcomb, 5.0, 6.0
Craig, P., 9.0
Cresques, Abraham, 2.0
crime, 5.0
Crome, August Friedrich Wilhelm, 4.0
Croxton, F. E., 7.0
Cruquius, Nicolaus Samuel, 4.0
Cubberly, E. P., 7.0
cumulative distribution, 7.0
curve
     Gompertz, 5.0
     logistic, 5.0
curve fitting, 4.0, 5.0
Cusa, Nicolas of, 2.0
cylindrical projection, 2.0

Daguerre, Louis Jacques Mandé, 5.0
data-ink ratio, 9.0
de Martonne, Emmanuel, 7.0
demographic statistics, 3.0
demography, 4.0
Denmark, 2.0, 7.0
Descartes, René, 2.0, 3.0
diagram
     chemical, 6.0
     color, 4.0
     correlation, 9.0
     geometric, 1.0, 2.0
     planetary movement, 2.0
     Zeuner, 6.0
disease map, 4.0, 6.0
distribution
     binomial, 4.0
     normal, 4.0
distribution function, 3.0
dot map, 5.0, 6.0
draftsman display, 9.0
Dresden, 7.0
Dupin, Baron Pierre Charles, 5.0
Dykes, Jason, 9.0
dynamic graphics, 8.0

earth
     diameter, 2.0
economic map, 4.0
EDA (exploratory data analysis), 8.0
EEG, 7.0
Eells, Walter C., 7.0
Ehrenberg, Andrew S. C., 9.0
Electroencephalograph, 7.0
Employees of New York City, , 7.0
England, 3.0, 4.0, 5.0, 6.0, 7.0, 8.0, 9.0
equations
     cubic, 2.0
Eratosthenes, , 2.0
errors of measurement, 3.0, 4.0
Euler, Leonhard, 4.0
Europe, 2.0
exhibition, 6.0
exploratory data analysis, 8.0

factor analysis, 7.0
Faraday, Michael, 5.0
Fermat, Pierre de, 3.0
Fienberg, Stephen E., 9.0
figures
     Chladni, 4.0
Fisher, Howard, 8.0
Fisher, Ronald Aylmer, 7.0
fisheye view, 9.0
Fishkeller, M. A., 8.0
Florence, Italy, 2.0
flow map, 5.0, 6.0
Fontaine, M., 7.0
Fontana, Gregorio, 4.0
FORTRAN, 8.0
Fourcroy, Charles de, 4.0
fourfold display, 9.0
Fourier series, 8.0
Fourier, Jean Baptiste Joseph, 5.0
Fowlkes, E. B., 8.0
Frère de Montizon, Armand Joseph, 5.0
France, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0, 5.0, 6.0, 7.0, 8.0
frequency
     cumulative, 5.0
frequency curve, 5.0
frequency polygon, 6.0
Friedman, Herman P., 8.0
Friedman, Jerome H., 8.0
Friendly, Michael, 9.0
Funkhouser, H. Gray, 7.0
Furnas, George W., 9.0

Gabriel, Ruben, 8.0
Galilei, Galileo, 2.0, 3.0
Galton, Francis, 6.0
Gantt chart, 7.0
Gantt, Henry Laurence, 7.0
Gauss, Johann Carl Friedrich, 5.0
Geddes, Patrick, 6.0
Gemma-Frisius, Regnier, 2.0, 3.0
geodesy, 3.0
geographic information systems, 8.0
geological map, 4.0, 5.0
geomagnetism, 3.0
geometry
     descriptive, 4.0
Germany, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0, 5.0, 6.0, 7.0
Gibbs, Josiah Willard, 6.0
glyph, 6.0, 8.0
     circular, 8.0
     multivariate, 7.0, 8.0
Golden age, 6.0
Goldwyn, R. M., 8.0
Gompertz, Benjamin, 5.0
grand tour, 9.0
graph, 6.0
     logarithmic, 5.0, 6.0
     shape, 7.0
     temperature, 3.0
     vs. table, 9.0
graph paper, 4.0, 5.0, 6.0
     log-log, 7.0
     logarithmic, 6.0
     normal probability, 6.0, 7.0
graphical perception, 7.0, 8.0, 9.0
graphical rational patterns, 8.0
Graunt, John, 3.0
growth
     population, 5.0
Guerry, André Michel, 5.0
Guerry, André-Michel, 5.0
Gunter, Edmund, 3.0
Gutenberg, Johann, 2.0

Halley, Edmond, 3.0, 4.0
hanging rootogram, 8.0
Harmon, Harry, 7.0
Harness, Henry Drury, 5.0
Harris, Moses, 4.0
Hartigan, John, 9.0
Haskell, A. C., 7.0
Haslett, J., 9.0
Hauksbee, Francis, 4.0
Hazen, Allen, 7.0
Henderson, Lawrence Joseph, 7.0
Herschel, John Frederick W., 5.0
Hertzsprung, Ejnar, 7.0
Hertzsprung-Russell diagram, 7.0
Hipparchus, , 2.0
histogram, 5.0, 8.0
     3D, 7.0
     bilateral, 6.0
     hanging, 8.0
Hollerith, Herman, 6.0
Hopper, Grace, 7.0
Howard, Luke, 5.0
Huhn, R. von, 7.0
Humboldt, Alexander von, 5.0
Hurley, Catherine, 9.0
Huygens, Christiaan, 3.0

income distribution, 7.0
information graphics, 1.0
Inselberg, Alfred, 9.0
interactive graphics, 8.0, 9.0
International Statistical Institute, , 6.0
interpolation, 4.0
Iowa State College, USA, 7.0
Ireland, 3.0, 5.0
ISI, 6.0
isogon, 3.0
isogonic, 4.0
isoline, 4.0
isotherm, 5.0
Isotype method, 7.0
Israel, 8.0
Italy, 2.0, 3.0, 6.0

Jevons, William Stanley, 6.0
Johnston, Alexander Keith, 5.0

Karsten, Karl G., 7.0
Keiding, M., 9.0
Keith, Alexander, 5.0
Kirscher, Athanasius, 3.0
Kleiner, Beat, 9.0
Kruskal, Joseph B., 8.0

Lalanne, Léon, 5.0
Lallemand, Charles, 6.0
Lambert, Johann Heinrich, 4.0
latitude, 2.0, 5.0
law
     mortality, 5.0
Le Blon, Jacob Cristoph, 4.0
Le Nautonier, Guillaume, 3.0
least squares, 4.0, 5.0
Leavens, D. H., 7.0
Leiden, Netherlands, 3.0
Leuven, Belgium, 2.0
Levasseur, Émile, 6.0
Lexis diagram, 6.0
Lexis pencil, 9.0
Lexis, Wilhelm, 6.0
Libya, 2.0
lie factor, 9.0
life table, 3.0
line graph, 4.0, 5.0, 6.0
linking, 9.0
literacy, 5.0
lithography, 4.0
Llull, Ramon, 2.0
log-log plot, 5.0, 7.0
logarithm, 3.0
London, UK, 6.0, 7.0
longitude, 2.0, 3.0, 5.0
Lorenz curve, 7.0
Lorenz, Max Otto, 7.0
Loua, Toussaint, 6.0
Lumière, Auguste, 6.0
Lumière, Louis, 6.0
Lun, Tsai, 2.0

Mackinlay, Jock, 9.0
magic lantern, 3.0
Majorca, Spain, 2.0
map, 2.0
     anamorphic, 6.0
     cartogram, 5.0
     choropleth, 5.0, 8.0
     contour, 5.0
     dasymetric, 5.0
     dot, 5.0, 6.0
     ethnographic, 7.0
     geological, 4.0, 5.0
     isoline, 8.0
     Peutinger, 2.0
     projection, 2.0
     topographical, 4.0
     two-variable, 6.0
     underground, 7.0
     usability, 7.0
     weather, 3.0, 9.0
     world, 2.0
mapping
     social, 6.0
Marey, Etienne-Jules, 6.0
Mark I, 7.0
Martin, F. C., 7.0
Maryland, USA, 7.0
matrix, 6.0
Maunder, Edward Walter, 7.0
Maxwell, James Clerk, 6.0
Mayer, Johanes Tobias, 4.0
Mayr, Georg von, 6.0
Mazarin bible, 2.0
McDonald, John A., 9.0
measurement
     psychological, 7.0
measurement error, 4.0
median, 3.0
medical statistics, 6.0, 7.0
Mendeleev, Dmitri, 6.0
Mercator, Gerardus, 2.0
midmean, 9.0
Mihalisin, Ted, 9.0
Minard, Charles Joseph, 5.0, 6.0
Ministere de Traveaux Publics, , 6.0
Monge, Gaspard, 4.0
Monmonier, Mark, 9.0
Montigny, Leon, 6.0
mortality table, 3.0
mosaic, 6.0
mosaic display, 6.0
mosaic matrix, 9.0
mosaic plot, 5.0, 6.0, 9.0
Moseley, Henry Gwyn Jeffreys, 7.0
motion, 6.0
Mulhall, Michael George, 6.0
multidimensional scaling, 8.0
multivariate data, 8.0
     faces, 8.0, 9.0
     grand tour, 9.0
     star plot, 8.0
Museum at Konya, Turkey, 2.0
Muybridge, Eadweard, 6.0

Napier, John, 3.0
Netherlands, 3.0, 4.0
Neurath, Otto, 7.0
New York, USA, 7.0
newspaper, 9.0
Newton, Carol, 9.0
Newton, Isaac, 4.0
Niépce, Joseph Nicephore, 5.0
Nightingale, Florence, 6.0
nomogram, 1.0, 4.0, 5.0, 7.0
     hexagonal, 6.0
normal curve, 5.0, 6.0, 7.0
normal distribution, 4.0
NZ, 8.0

Ocagne, Maurice d', 6.0
Office of Management and Budget, , 8.0, 9.0
ogive, 5.0
Oresme (Bishop of Lisieus), Nicole, 2.0
Ortelius (Ortel), Abraham, 2.0
Oughtred, William, 3.0
Outlook Tower, Edinburgh, Scotland, 6.0

Palmer, A. R., 7.0
Palo Alto, USA, 9.0
pantograph, 3.0
paper, 2.0
parallel coordinates plot, 6.0, 9.0
parchment, 2.0
Parent-Duchatelet, Alexandre Jean Baptiste, 5.0
Pascal, Blaise, 3.0
pattern
     vibration, 4.0
Peddle, John Bailey, 7.0
pendulum, 2.0
Pergamon, 2.0
periodic variation, 4.0
Perozzo, Luigi, 6.0
perpetual calendar, 2.0
Petty, William, 3.0
Phillips, Alban William Housego, 8.0
photograph, 5.0
photography, 4.0
     color, 6.0
     stereoscopic, 5.0
Pickett, R., 8.0
pictogram, 6.0, 7.0
pie chart, 5.0, 7.0
Playfair, William, 4.0, 5.0
polar coordinates, 5.0
polar diagram, 6.0
population density, 5.0, 6.0
population pyramid, 6.0
population statistics, 4.0
Pouchet, Louis Ézéchiel, 4.0
poverty, 6.0
press
     printing, 2.0
Priestley, Joseph, 4.0
PRIM-9, 8.0
printing, 4.0
     three-color, 4.0
printing press, 2.0
Pritchard, James Cowles, 5.0
probability, 2.0
probability paper, 7.0
probability theory, 3.0
progression
     geometric, 5.0
projection, 2.0
     anonometric, 6.0
     cylindrical, 2.0
projection lantern, 3.0
psychometrics, 7.0, 8.0
Ptolemy, Claudius, 2.0

Quetelet, 6.0
Quetelet, Adolphe, 5.0

Rao, Ramana, 9.0
regression, 6.0
     curvilinear, 6.0
Reiser, Mark, 9.0
Rheticus, Georg Joachim, 2.0
rhumb lines, 2.0
Riedwyl, Hans, 9.0
Rizvi, M. H., 9.0
Roesle, Emil Eugen, 7.0
Rorick, George, 9.0
Russell, Henry Norris, 7.0
Russia, 6.0, 7.0

Süssmilch, Johann Peter, 4.0
sampling distribution, 7.0
scalogram, 6.0
scatterplot, 5.0, 6.0, 8.0, 9.0
scatterplot matrix, 9.0
Schüpbach, Michel, 9.0
schedule
     train, 6.0
Scheiner, Christopher, 3.0
Schickard, Wilhelm, 3.0
Schulze, Johann Heinrich, 4.0
Schwabe, H., 7.0
Schwabe, Hermann, 6.0
Scotland, 3.0
Scrope, George Julius Poulett, 5.0
Seaman, Valentine, 4.0
semi-graphic display, 4.0, 7.0
Senefelder, Aloys, 4.0
Shewhart, Walter A., 7.0
Shneiderman, Ben, 9.0
Siegel, J. H., 8.0
sieve diagram, 9.0
signals
     electrical, 7.0
significance test, 4.0
small multiples, 3.0
Smith, William, 5.0
Snell (Snellius), Willebrord van Roijen, 3.0
Snow, John, 6.0
Social and Economic Museum, Vienna, Austria, 7.0
social statistics, 6.0, 7.0, 8.0
Southern, John, 4.0
Soviet Union, 7.0
Spain, 2.0, 3.0
sparkline, 9.0
spatial data, 9.0
standards, 7.0
     graphical, 7.0
Stanford University, USA, 7.0
star chart, 2.0
star plot, 6.0, 8.0
statistics
     moral, 5.0
     mortality, 5.0
statistik, 4.0
StatUS, 9.0
stem-leaf plot, 8.0
stereogram, 6.0
stereoscope, 5.0
suicide, 5.0
sunspot, 3.0
sunspots, 7.0
superposition, 4.0
survey, 6.0
     economic, 3.0
     social, 6.0
Swayne, Deborah, 9.0
Switzerland, 4.0, 9.0
Sylvester, James Joseph, 6.0
SYMAP, 8.0

table
     contingency, 9.0
     contour map, 5.0
     empirical data, 3.0
     life, 3.0
     mathematical, 5.0
     mortality, 3.0
     multiplication, 4.0
     periodic, 6.0
     Peutinger, 2.0
     semi-graphic, 6.0
     trigonometric, 2.0
     vs. graph, 9.0
table lens, 9.0
Talon, Jean, 3.0
Tartaglia, Niccolo Fontana, 2.0
telescope, 3.0
television, 7.0
thematic map, 4.0
Thurstone, Louis Leon, 7.0
Tierney, Luke, 9.0
time series, 5.0, 9.0
timeline, 4.0, 10.0
     log scale, 7.0
topographical map, 4.0
treemap, 9.0
trellis display, 7.0, 9.0
triangulation, 2.0, 3.0
trichromatic process, 6.0
trilinear coordinates, 6.0
Tubingen, Germany, 3.0
Tufte, Edward, 9.0
Tukey, John W., 8.0, 9.0
Tukey, Paul A., 9.0
Turkey, 2.0

U.S. Bureau of the Census, , 6.0, 8.0, 9.0
UK, 5.0, 6.0, 7.0, 9.0
Unwin, Antony, 9.0
USA, 4.0, 6.0, 7.0, 8.0, 9.0
USA Today, 9.0

Vauthier, Louis-Léger, 6.0
Venn, John, 6.0
Verhulst, Pierre-François, 5.0
Vienna, Austria, 6.0
Vinci, Leonardo da, 2.0
visual design, 1.0
visual thinking, 1.0
vital statistics, 3.0
Von Foerster, Heinz, 7.0

Wainer, Howard, 8.0, 9.0
Walker, Francis Amasa, 6.0
Warne, Frank Julian, 7.0
Washburne, J. N., 7.0
Watt, James, 4.0
weather clock, 3.0
weather map, 6.0, 9.0
Wegman, Edward, 9.0
Wheatstone, Charles, 5.0
White, B. W., 8.0
Wilkinson, Leland, 9.0
Wills, Graham, 9.0
wind rose, 5.0
Witt, Jan de, 3.0
Wren, Christopher, 3.0
Wright, Sewall, 7.0

Xerox Parc, USA, 9.0

Young, Forrest, 9.0

Zeuner, Gustav, 6.0
Zworykin, Vladimir Kosma, 7.0
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