New The History Of Information Visualization

The magnificent David Rumsey Collection has a novel 'data visualization' discipline plain which allows you lot to search too explore some wonderful examples of early on information visualizations. It features information visualizations past times pioneers of information graphics, such as Charles Minard, Henry Beck too John  B.Sparks.


One of my personal favorites inwards this information visualization collection is Levi W. Yaggy's Geographical Definitions Illustrated. This vividly colorful educational nautical chart was designed to live on displayed inwards a classroom. The nautical chart depicts examples of a broad hit of geographical features, such as deltas, estuaries too harbors.


Charles Minard was a pioneer of the purpose of graphics inwards technology scientific discipline too statistics. His nearly famous visualization was his flow-map of Napoleon's disastrous Russian campaign. Minard's flow-map of Napoleon's 1812 Russian stimulate isn't inwards the David Rumsey collection but the collection does bring Minard flow-maps showing global emigration inwards 1858, the Atlantic merchandise inwards wool too cotton too the movements of mineral fuels on railways too waterways.

In each of these maps scaled arrows are used to present the direction too scale of the motility of goods and/or people.


John B. Sparks' Histomap of Evolution is a logarithmic timeline which visualizes 10 K 1000000 years of evolution. The nautical chart was an accompaniment to John B. Sparks as ambitious Histomap, which condensed 4000 years of human activeness into 1 chart. The Histomap was five feet long too was sold inwards 1931, past times Rand McNally, for $1.

This history of the globe starts at the transcend of the Histomap inwards 2000 BC too progresses frontwards inwards fourth dimension as you lot locomote downwards the chart. The width of the diverse 'states, nations too empires' equates to their 'relative power' through history.

These are simply a few examples which I constitute spell browsing the David Rumsey Collection. If you lot are interested inwards information visualizations, information graphics or pattern too thence you lot volition savour browsing the 'data visualization' discipline plain for yourself. I haven't fifty-fifty got around to discussing Henry Beck's early on London Underground maps or Charles Booth's map of London poverty.


You mightiness bring noticed that all of these examples from the David Rumsey Collection are displayed using the LUNA viewer. In other words IIIF has been used to display each of these information visualizations. This agency that you lot tin display whatever of these visualizations yourself inwards a Leaflet map using the Leaflet-IIIF plug-in. If you lot are interested inwards mapping whatever of these examples amongst Leaflet too thence you lot ask to click on the 'share' link on its visualization page on the David Rumsey Collection. You tin too thence click on the IIIF link to catch the URL for the IIIF manifest.
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