Visualization


Western Han map, circa 180 BCE







Muhammad Al-Idrisi, Tabula Rogeriana, 1154







Gerardus Mercator, world map, 1569







Edmond Halley, map of trade winds & monsoons, 1686







Christopher Scheiner, sunspots, 1612







Joseph Priestley, timeline of lives, 1765







William Playfair, line graph (time series chart), 1786







William Playfair, bar graph, 1786







John Snow, cholera map, 1854







Charles Joseph Minard, figurative map of Napoleon's Russian campaign, 1869






Data






http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/feed/v1.0/ is a source of data on earthquakes

How can we visualize this data?



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