What took so long for viz?
Visualized data seems as natural as eating and sleeping, doesn't it? Yet the first economic time-series wasn't plotted until 1786, according to our patriarch of viz Edward Tufte in his 1983 book Visual Display of Quantitative Information.
What took so long? I suppose humanity really did suffer from lack of an Excel chart wizard. People had been making ma…
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