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Graphic Methods for Presenting Facts

Brinton, Willard C. Graphic Methods for Presenting Facts. New York: The Engineering Magazine Company, 1914. Internet Archive identifier: cu31924032626792 (Cornell University Library copy). The first American textbook on what we now call data visualization. 269 words

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Fig. 154. Comparison of Earnings of Men Wage Earners in Different Portions of

the United States in 1905

This chart is almost hopelessly confused because the scales have been so arranged that the two scale zeros appear at the upper left-hand comer of the chart instead of at the lower left-hand comer. The vertical scale reads downward when it should read upward. See Fig. 155 for these same data redrawn