"Andrew S. C. Ehrenberg" returned 14 hits
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Map projections of a spherical earth and use of latitude and longitude to characterize position (first display of longitude)
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Ptolemy's world map, republished in 1482, Ptolemy portrait , Ptolemy world map description, with images, Ptolemy's world map, description and high-res image, Ptolemy history, The world according to Ptolemy
Category:
Cartography
2
Invention of logarithms, and the first published tables of logarithms.
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Two pages from Napier's table of logarithms, Diagram of spherical triangles from, Napier portrait, Biography of Napier, Linear and logarithmic scales, English translation of John Napier : Mirifici Logarithmorum Canonis Descriptio...by Ian Bruce
Category:
Statistics & Graphics
3
Automatic recording device (the weather clock) producing a moving graph of temperature and wind direction (in polar coordinates)
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Wren portrait, Wren portrait, Wren catalog entry from the Galileo Project, Wren biography (St. Andrews)
Category:
Technology
4
Historical timeline (life spans of 2,000 famous people, 1200 B.C. to 1750 A.D.), quantitative comparison by means of bars
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Priestley's specimen chart of biography, Priestley biography, Priestley portrait
Category:
Cartography
5
Use of geometric, proportional figures (squares) to compare demographic quantities by superposition, an early "tableau graphique''
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de Fourcroy's proportional squares, de Fourcroy's proportional squares, Description of de Fourcroy, from Palsky
Category:
Statistics & Graphics
6
Development of the logistic curve, $ y = k / (1 + C e^)$, to describe the growth of human populations
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Verhulst bio, Pierre-Francois Verhulst et la loi logistique de la population, Verhulst portrait
Category:
Statistics & Graphics
7
Numerous textbooks on graphics, describing principles of graphical presentation of numerical information (published at a rate of about two each year), e.g.,
Category:
Statistics & Graphics
8
Experimental test of statistical graphical forms (pie vs. subdivided bar charts)
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Experimental stimuli
Category:
Statistics & Graphics
9
"Log Square'' paper ($log y, log x$, for relations which are linear in log scales)
Category:
Technology
10
Re-design of the routes of the London underground rail system to favor usability
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Modern London tube map following Beck, Beck's initial underground map, Beck portrait, Wikipedia on Henry (Harry) Beck, Catalog of London Underground maps 1933-
Category:
Cartography
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Irregular polygon ("star plot'') to represent multivariate data (with vertices at equally spaced intervals, distance from center proportional to the value of a variable) [but see Georg von Mayr in 1877 cite[S. 78]{vonMayr:1877} for first use]
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Star plot, description and example, Star plot of crime rates in US cities
Category:
Statistics & Graphics
12
Form of Fourier series to generate plots of multivariate data
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Fourier function plot image
Category:
Statistics & Graphics
13
Experimental tests of statistical graphics vs tables, findings favoring latter
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Summarising and presenting data- Rules for tables, Ehrenberg portrait
Category:
Statistics & Graphics
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Fisheye view: an idea to provide focus and greater detail in areas of interest of a large amount of information, while retaining the surrounding context in much less detail
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Fisheye view of central Washington, D.C., Nonlinear magnification home page, Fisheye view of central Washington, D.C., Fisheye view of central Washington, D.C., Furnas home page, Generalised fisheye views paper (pdf)
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Other
