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A #blastfromthepast #DataViz. Back in 1937, generating charts was not so much the issue as much as sharing them. Telegraphs initially allowed dataviz to be transmitted electronically to selected cities in the USA.
(from Brinton 1939)
#Blastfromthepast #DataViz: How #Sankey's were made back in the days. First, it was called a #Cosmograph. Second, 1000 strips of paper distributed along markers on a plate. PS. International Business Machines = #IBM, a not so common acronym.
This book is so fascinating.
Here is a income distribution analysis from 1929 for the US. Top 1% had an of >=15k. Bottom 40% <=1k. This alluvial graph is not that easy to read.
Also would be interesting to compare it to the distribution today.
Examples of graphs that should be banned as discussed in another visualization guide book from 1919. Now we know that polar graphs have been dissed for at least a century now....
@asjadnaqvi@econtwitter.netMore dissing. First graph is " scale hacking" & is often used to show suprious correlations. Also x-axis is 1888 to 1902 
See the comment of the 2nd fig: "Such a chart as this is worse than none". This guy is the review2 of dataviz.
The book is "Graphic Methods for presenting… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1641907594519363584
