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, 1630






Joseph Priestley, timeline of lives, 1765






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






William Playfair, line graph (time series chart), 1800






William Playfair, bar graph, 1786






John Snow, cholera map, 1854






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





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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