Milestones in the history of thematic cartography, statistical graphics, and data visualization

Milestones in the History of
Thematic Cartography,
Statistical Graphics,
and Data Visualization

Pre-1600	1600s	1700s	1800-1850
1850-1900	1900-1950	1950-1975	1975-present

An illustrated chronology of innovations
by Michael Friendly and Daniel J. Denis

Up: Gallery	Introduction	Related	References	Term Index	Category XRef
Pre-1600	1600s	1700s	1800+	1850+	1900+	1950+	1975+

Related information:

We have moved: See the new version of this web site at http://datavis.ca/milestones/
Citations: References to information or images obtained from this web site should be cited as follows:
Friendly, M. & Denis, D. J. (2001). Milestones in the history of thematic cartography, statistical graphics, and data visualization. Web document, http://www.math.yorku.ca/SCS/Gallery/milestone/. Accessed:
PDF version: This document in PDF form, with active links.
Other publications:
- Chapter on the Milestone Project in C. Weihs and W. Gaul (eds.), Classification-- The Ubiquitous Challenge, Handbook of Computational Statistics: Data Visualization, Springer, 2005.
- A Brief History of Data Visualization in C. Chen, W. Hardle and A. Unwin (eds.), Handbook of Computational Statistics: Data Visualization, Vol III, Springer, 2007.
Visual brochures designed by Mario Kanno
- Milestones in the History of Data Visualization
- Marcos na História da Visualização de Dados(Brazillian Portuguese)
Images from the JSM 2002 Technical Poster Session [Thanks to Andy Mauromoustakos!]:
- Image1 (864 x 648; 123K);
- Image2 (864 x 648; 124K).

This web version is dedicated to Arthur H. Robinson (1915-2004), who inspired and encouraged our interest; to Antoine de Falguerolles, who initiated it, and to les Chevaliers des Album de Statistique Graphique, who supported it with interest, enthusiasm, and resources. In particular, Gilles Palsky, Antoine de Falguerolles, Antony Unwin and Ruddy Ostermann contributed important images and background information. This work is supported by the National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, Grant OGP0138748.

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