1801 PLAYFAIR, William (1759 – 1823)
The statistical breviary; shewing, on a principle entirely new, the resources of every state and kingdom in Europe; illustrated with stained copperplate charts, representing the physical powers of each distinct nation with ease and perspicuity. To which is added, a similar exhibition of the ruling powers of Hindoostan.
In this work Playfair invented the pie chart. It has also been suggested that Playfair, often short of funds, may have colored the charts in all the copies himself—the process he characterized as "staining" in the tit…
GMN 8148 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10324
1834 CHÂTEAUNEUF, Louis-François Benoiston de (1776 – 1856)
Rapport sur la marche et les effets du choléra-morbus dans Paris et les communes rurales du département de la Seine par la commission nommée, avec l'approbation de M. le ministre du commerce et des travaux publics, par MM. les préfets de la Seine et de police; année 1832.
This work contained one of the earliest applications of spatial analysis in epidemiology—an early thematic map by geographer and cartographer Charles Picquet, in which the 48 districts of Paris were represented by gra…
GMN 7480 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9652
1854 YOUMANS, Edward Livingston (1821 – 1887)
Chemical atlas; or, the chemistry of familiar objects: Exhibiting the general principles of the science in a series of beautifully colored diagrams, and accompanied by explanatory essays, embracing the latest views of the subjects illustrated. Designed for the use of students and pupils in all schools where chemistry is taught.
The diagrams in this pioneering work in information graphics were printed in red and black; a variety of other colors were applied by hand. Digital facsimile from digital.sciencehistory.org at this link.
GMN 13388 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15659
1858 NIGHTINGALE, Florence (1820 – 1910)
Notes on matters affecting the health, efficiency, and hospital administration of the British Army. Founded chiefly on the experience of the late war. Presented by request to the Secretary of State for War.
This privately printed pamphlet contained a color statistical graphic entitled "Diagram of the causes of mortality in the Army of the East" which showed that epidemic disease, which was responsible for more British de…
GMN 7481 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9653
1874 WALKER, Francis Amasa (1840 – 1897)
Statistical atlas of the United States based on the results of the ninth census 1870, with contributions from many eminent men of science and several departments of the government.
This oversized compendium of maps, graphs, statistical tables, and essays was the first comprehensive thematic atlas produced by any nation. It was hailed both at home and abroad for its innovative use of graphic elem…
GMN 7479 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9651
1878 MAREY, Étienne Jules (1830 – 1904)
La méthode graphique dans les sciences expérimentales et particulièrement en physiologie et en médecine.
Marey pioneered the use of graphical recording in the experimental sciences, using instruments (many of his own invention) to capture and display data impossible to observe with the senses alone, and to record the pro…
GMN 7294 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9464
1914 BRINTON, Willard Cope (1880 – 1957)
Graphic methods for presenting facts.
The first book on information graphics published in America. Digital facsimile of the 1919 printing from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 8121 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10297
1929 VOGT, Walter (1888 – 1941)
Gestaltungsanalyse am Amphibienkeim mit Örtlicher Vitalfärbung: II. Teil. Gastrulation und Mesodermbildung bei Urodelen und Anuren.
Modern fate mapping began in 1929 when Walter Vogt marked the groups of cells using a dyed agar chip and tracked them through gastrulation.
GMN 14096 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16407
1934 MORENO, Jacob Levy (1889 – 1974)
Who shall survive? A new approach to the problem of human interrelations.
Moreno founded psychodrama, and pioneered group psychotherapy. Apart from its psychiatric and sociological significance, this work contained some of the earliest graphic depictions of social networks— data visualizati…
GMN 7700 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9872
1967 BERTIN, Jacques (1918 – 2010)
Sémiologie graphique: Les diagrammes. Les reseaux. Les cartes.
Foundational work in design and cartography concerning the graphic display of quantitative information. Includes display of medical or statistical information. Translated into English by William J. Berg as Semiology o…
GMN 7699 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9871
1978 U.S. BUREAU OF THE CENSUS
Graphic presentation of statistical information: Papers presented at the 136th annual meeting of the American Statistical Association, Social Statistics Section: Session of Graphical Methods for Presenting Statistical Data: Boston, Massachusetts, August 23-26, 1976, Vol. 3.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 8122 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10298
1983 TUFTE, Edward Rolf (1942 – )
The visual display of quantitative information.
GMN 8146 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10322
2010 BÖRNER, Katy (1967 – )
Atlas of science: Visualizing what we know.
GMN 8147 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10323
2015 CZERWIEC, M. K.; WILLIAMS, Ian; SQUIER, Susan Merrill; GREEN, Michael J.; MYERS, Kimberly R.; SMITH, Scott T.
The graphic medicine manifesto.
"...establishes the principles of graphic medicine and begins to map the field. The volume combines scholarly essays by members of the editorial team with previously unpublished visual narratives by Ian Williams and M…
GMN 9818 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12006
2018 DU BOIS, William Edward Burghardt (1868 – 1964); BATTLE-BAPTISTE, Whitney; RUSERT, Britt
W. E. B. Du Bois's data portraits. Visualizing black America. The color line at the turn of the twentieth century. Edited by Whitney Battle-Baptiste and Britt Rusert.
GMN 12878 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15125
2019 COOK, Steven J.; JARRELL, Travis A.; EMMONS, Scott W.; ET AL
Whole-animal connectomes of both Caenorhabditis elegans sexes.
The first whole-animal connectomes for both adult sexes of a single species. "As none of the EM series cover an entire single animal, to generate whole animal connectomes, data from different reconstruction series wer…
GMN 12970 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15218
2020 GARDNER, Lauren Marie; DONG, Ensheng; DU, Hongru
An interactive web-based dashboard to track COVID-19 in real time.
https://doi.org/10.1016/S1473-3099(20)30120-1 "During the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic, Gardner recognised that the public, researchers and health authorities needed clear, accessible and up-to-date information.[8] Wo…
GMN 12062 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14271
2020 TOPOS.COM
COVID-19 COMPILER. MAP
https://covid19.topos.com/ "COVID-19 Compiler aims to display relevant data about the novel coronavirus outbreak in the United States. "Our goal is to provide a multidimensional view of covid-19’s impact in counties a…
GMN 12186 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14396
