"George Rorick" returned 11 hits
1
Trigonometric tables (published 1596 posthumously)
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Rheticus biography
Category:
Statistics & Graphics
2
First classed depiction of population density on a world map (using three broad classes in a dasymetric map)
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Wikipedia: Scrope biography, Scrope biography
Category:
Cartography
3
Two-variable color map (showing the joint distribution of horses (red, vertical bars) and cattle (green, horizontal bars) in Bavaria, widths of bars $sim$ animals/km$^2$)
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von Mayr Portrait
Category:
Statistics & Graphics
4
First use of proportional, divided square in the modern (mosaic) form for data representation
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von Mayr's Area diagram, von Mayr portrait, Mosaic graph by Von Mayr
Category:
Statistics & Graphics
5
First use of polar diagrams and star plots for data representation
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von Mayr's polar diagram
Category:
Statistics & Graphics
6
Pictogram, used to represent data by icons proportional to a number
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Mulhall pictogram image, Mulhall pictogram image, steam power (730 x 457; 52K), Man, animal and machine pictogram, Google Books: Mulhall's Dictionary of Statistics, Mulhall pictogram image, railways (726 x 456; 58K)
Category:
Statistics & Graphics
7
Suggestion for displaying five variables by means of movements on a CRT
Category:
Technology
8
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
9
Color-coded bivariate matrix to represent two intervally measured variables in a single map (Urban Atlas series)[but see Georg von Mayr in 1874 cite[Fig. XIX]{vonMayr:1874} for first use]
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CDC map of incidence of stomach cancer
Category:
Statistics & Graphics
10
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)
Category:
Other
11
The USA Today color weather map begins an era of color information graphics in newspapers. Shortly, colorful visual graphics become widespread.
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image, George Rorick portrait, image, The Colorful Origins of USA Today
Category:
Cartography
