Rolf Turner wrote:
...
I have been for many years under the impression that the pie chart
was invented by Florence Nightingale. Am I misinformed?
Hi Rolf,
Yes, you have been misled. Dear old Florence invented a related
illustration now usually referred to as a polar area diagram. It was
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pie_chart
cites papers using the polar area diagram prior to Nightengale although
it does say that many sources credit it to her.
On Jan 29, 2008 6:16 AM, Jim Lemon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Rolf Turner wrote:
...
I have been for many years under the impression
On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 13:38:51 -0600, Roger Koenker wrote:
Howard Wainer (Graphical Discovery, PUP, 2005, p 20) gives
this dubious honor to Playfair (1759- 1823). Nightingale (1820-
1910) was far too enlightened for this sort of thing, see for example
her letter to Galton about
is
innocent of the crime of creating the first pie chart.
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On 28/01/2008, at 12:07 AM, Peter Dalgaard wrote:
Jean lobry wrote:
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Thank you!
cheers,
Rolf
On 29/01/2008, at 8:38 AM, roger koenker wrote:
Howard Wainer (Graphical Discovery, PUP, 2005, p 20) gives
this dubious honor to Playfair (1759- 1823). Nightingale (1820-
1910) was far too enlightened for this sort of thing, see for example
Turner
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Thank you!
cheers,
Rolf
On 29/01/2008, at 8:38 AM, roger koenker wrote:
Howard Wainer (Graphical Discovery, PUP, 2005, p 20) gives
this dubious
On 28/01/2008, at 12:07 AM, Peter Dalgaard wrote:
Jean lobry wrote:
snip
about an hour North of Paris. Her father inquired -
coincidentally during the cheese course - what work I was
doing in Paris; I replied that I was researching the
activities of a Scot, William Playfair,
, hence the credit, but in truth I think Nightingale is innocent of
the crime of creating the first pie chart.
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Howard Wainer (Graphical Discovery, PUP, 2005, p 20) gives
this dubious honor to Playfair (1759- 1823). Nightingale (1820-
1910) was far too enlightened for this sort of thing, see for example
her letter to Galton about endowing an Oxford professorship
in social statistics (reprinted in Karl
On Jan 28, 2008 1:25 PM, Greg Snow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I had heard the same thing about Florence Nightingale, but it seems that this
is a confusion of different graphs.
Nightingale developed a graph based on a circle, but all the angles were
equal and the different values were encoded
Dear useRs,
by a circular diagram representation I mean what you will get by entering
this at your R promt:
pie(1:5)
Nice to have R as a lingua franca :-)
The folowing quote is from page 360 in this very interesting paper:
@article{SpenceI2005,
title = {No Humble Pie: The
Jean lobry wrote:
Dear useRs,
by a circular diagram representation I mean what you will get by entering
this at your R promt:
pie(1:5)
Nice to have R as a lingua franca :-)
The folowing quote is from page 360 in this very interesting paper:
@article{SpenceI2005,
title =
Nice. Two minor points:
- the illustration for Danish has a cake which is speaking Polish
- Stastistical (on the ISI page)
Ooops! I have changed the picture and fixed the typo, Thanks.
--
Jean R. Lobry([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Laboratoire BBE-CNRS-UMR-5558, Univ. C. Bernard - LYON
Subject: Re: [R] [OT] vernacular names for circular diagrams
Jean lobry wrote:
Dear useRs,
by a circular diagram representation I mean what you will get by
entering
this at your R promt:
pie(1:5)
Nice to have R as a lingua franca :-)
The folowing quote is from page 360 in this very
Dear useRs,
by a circular diagram representation I mean what you will get by entering
this at your R promt:
pie(1:5)
Nice to have R as a lingua franca :-)
The folowing quote is from page 360 in this very interesting paper:
@article{SpenceI2005,
title = {No Humble Pie: The Origins and
From Montreal,
Some people here call it the 'pizza diagram'
?some not eatable names?
salut
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From Montreal,
Some people here call it the 'pizza diagram'
?some not eatable names?
salut
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Dalgaard
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Jean lobry wrote:
Dear useRs,
by a circular diagram representation I mean what you will get by
entering
this at your R promt:
pie(1:5)
Nice
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