"Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier" returned 13 hits
1
First modern complete demographic census, a record of each individual by name of the 3215 inhabitants of New France
Mediaitems:
The great intendant: A chronicle of Jean Talon in Canada (e-book), Jean Talon biography from Statistics Canada, Commentary on first Canadian census by Dan
Category:
Statistics & Graphics
2
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 portrait, Priestley biography
Category:
Cartography
3
Ogive or cumulative frequency curve, inhabitants of Paris by age groupings (shows the number of inhabitants of Paris per 10,000 in 1817 who were of a given age or over. The name "ogive'' is due to Galton.)
Mediaitems:
Fourier ogive, Fourier portrait, Fourier biography
Category:
Statistics & Graphics
4
First successful photograph produced (an 8-hour exposure). [A type of asphalt (bitumen of Judea) was coated on metal plates. After exposure it was washed in solvents, the light areas were shown by the bitumen, dark areas by bare metal. Exposed to iodine, the plate darkened in the shadowed areas.]
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Niepce photo, Point de vue du Gras, Niepce portrait, University of Texas exhibition: The first photo, Catalog of Niepce heliographies
Category:
Technology
5
First simple dot map of population by department, 1 dot = 10,000 people
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Dot map of population of France, 1830
Category:
Cartography
6
Extensive data tabulation, time series, and mapping of prostitutes in Paris
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Duchatelet's map showing the distribution of prostitutes in Paris, Duchatelet's map showing the origins of prostitutes in Paris, English translation of On prostitution in the city of Paris
Category:
Statistics & Graphics
7
"Tableau-graphique'' showing transportation of commercial traffic by variable-width (distance), divided bars (height $sim$ amount), area $sim$ cost of transport [An early form of the mosaic plot.]
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Minard Tableau graphique, Minard biography
Category:
Statistics & Graphics
8
Map incorporating statistical diagrams: circles proportional to coal production (published in 1861)
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Pie-map showing origin of meats consumed in Paris
Category:
Cartography
9
Minard's flow map graphic of Napoleon's March on Moscow (called "the best graphic ever produced)
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Minard's March on Moscow graphic, Web page for "Re-visions of Charles Joseph Minard''
Category:
Cartography
10
The term "graph'' introduced, referring to diagrams showing analogies between the chemical bonds in molecules and graphical representations of mathematical invariants (also coined the term "matrix'')
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Sylvester's diagram image, Sylvester's diagram icon, Sylvester portrait, Wikipedia: Sylvester, Sylvester biography
Category:
Statistics & Graphics
11
Nomogram of chemical concentrations in blood, showing the relations among over 20 components
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Henderson nomogram image, Henderson nomogram icon, Henderson biography (pdf)
Category:
Statistics & Graphics
12
Beginnings of modern dynamic statistical graphics (a 1 minute movie of the iterative process of finding a multidimensional scaling solution)
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Photo of Joseph Kruskal, ASA Video Library blurb for video "Multidimensional Scaling'', with sample frames
Category:
Statistics & Graphics
13
Form of Fourier series to generate plots of multivariate data
Mediaitem:
Fourier function plot image
Category:
Statistics & Graphics
