((E.)) ((B.)) ((Fowlkes)) returned 20 hits
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Improvements in instruments for accurately measuring positions of stars and planets, providing the most accurate catalog on which later discoveries (e.g., Kepler's laws) would be based
Category:
Technology
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First modern complete demographic census, a record of each individual by name of the 3215 inhabitants of New France
Category:
Statistics & Graphics
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Use of statistics for international comparisons, e.g., London vs. Rome and London vs. Paris, compared in people, housing, hospitals, etc.
Category:
Statistics & Graphics
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Historical timeline (life spans of 2,000 famous people, 1200 B.C. to 1750 A.D.), quantitative comparison by means of bars
Category:
Cartography
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Development of the logistic curve, $ y = k / (1 + C e^{rt})$, to describe the growth of human populations
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Statistics & Graphics
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First attempt to survey, describe, and illustrate available graphic methods for experimental data
Category:
Statistics & Graphics
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Comprehensive review of all available statistical graphics presented to the Statistical Society of London, classified as figures, maps, and solids (3D), perhaps the first mature attempt at a systematic classification of graphical forms
Category:
Statistics & Graphics
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First anamorphic maps, using a deformation of spatial size to show a quantitative variable (e.g., the decrease in time to travel from Paris to various places in France over 200 years)
Category:
Statistics & Graphics
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At the Paris Exposition in 1900, W. E. B. Du Bois compiled an exhibit of hundreds of graphs and photographs depicting the history of Negroes in America, including over 60 statistical charts, graphs and maps.
Category:
Statistics & Graphics
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Annual college course in statistical graphical methods
Category:
Statistics & Graphics
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Numerous textbooks on graphics, describing principles of graphical presentation of numerical information (published at a rate of about two each year), e.g.,
Category:
Statistics & Graphics
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The essential idea behind what are now called partial residual plots are discussed in Ezekial's paper: "A method of handling curvilinear correlation for any number of variables". Later in history, this is rediscovered by Larsen and McCleary (1972).
Category:
Statistics & Graphics
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Spate of articles on experimental tests of statistical graphical forms
Category:
Statistics & Graphics
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Spate of articles on experimental tests of statistical graphical forms
Category:
Statistics & Graphics
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Description of a memex, an associative information retrieval system which would help someone find information based in association and context rather than strict categorical indexing; conceptual creation of "hyperlink'' and the ''World Wide Web''
Category:
Technology
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Beginnings of modern dynamic statistical graphics (a 1 minute movie of the iterative process of finding a multidimensional scaling solution)
Category:
Statistics & Graphics
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Triangular glyphs to represent simultaneously four variables, using sides and orientation
Category:
Statistics & Graphics
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The first well-known direct manipulation interactive system in statistics: allowed users to interactively control a power transformation in realtime for probability plotting
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Technology
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"Four-Fold Circular Display'' to represent 2 x 2 table
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Statistics & Graphics
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A spate of development and public distribution of highly interactive systems for data analysis and visualization, e.g., XGobi, ViSta
Category:
Technology
