The bad boy of bar charts: William Playfair (2023)

75 points 5 comments 4 days ago

ggm

Somebody should speak up to Florence Nightingale and her flame charts and stats visualisations. Heroine of operations research.

ctxc

And he's done it five years back! Great blog, look at his other posts too

skeptrune

Something poetic about the guy who made bar and pie charts being a serial con artist

jihadjihad

With the ironic last name to boot

ctxc

What a goldmine of a blog. Interesting find!