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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. 313 words

Election returns, methods of giving, 341

Engineering Magazine, 12, 14, 17, 18, 116,

125, 246 Engineering News, 87 Engineering Record, 79, 119, 209, 210 Equitable Life Assurance Co., 174, 175 Errors in comparison, 20 Ewerbeck, Dr., 225 Exaggeration due to scales used, 353 Examination marks, charting, 205, 206 Executive control curves, 254, 288 Executives of corporations, 289 Exhibition board, 232 Exports and imports of United States, 37 Exports from the United Kingdom, 98 Eye-catchers, 25, 26, 27, 123

Factory, 147, 155, 180, 256

Fan tests, 335

Farm-land values in United States, 218

Farwell, E. S., 335

Figures included in a chart, 27

misleading, 326

significant, 326 Files for curve cards, 289, 291 Financial charts, 104

prosperity curves, 293

reports, corporation, 307 Fire losses in United States, 120, 121 Fisher, Irving, 10 Fixtures for displaying curves and maps,

Flags, celluloid, for maps, 247 Flat-top curve-plotting, 256 Flood curves, 77, 79, 119 Food prices in United States, 103 Football games, charting, 212 Foreign trade of United States, 139 Forms, routing printed, 18 Formulas for curves, 202 Frankfurt a.M., Map of, 225 Freeman, John R., 160 Freight-car shortage and surplus, 349

handling, curves for analysis of, 184, 188, 192

service on Illinois Central, 310

service on Union Pacific, 311

traffic density map, 224

train operation, 123 French curves, 201 Frequency curves, 164

Gang punch for cards, 324

Gantt, H. L., 52, 54

Garnett, W., 205, 206

Gasoline costs for motor trucks, 198

GRAPHIC METHODS

Gasoline-electric generator advertisement,

Gear teeth, strength of, 334 General Electric Revietv, 78, 239 General methods, 321 Geography books, 22 Gifford, Walter S., 179, 240 Gilbreth, Frank B., 50 Good Housekeeping, 21 Grammar for graphic work, 361 Graphic presentation, rules for, 362 Graphical charts, construction of, 335 Green ink, making line cuts from, 330, 331 Grolier Society, 358, 359 Grouping of component parts, 33 Grooves in cards for filing, 296 Gummed letters, 46