[R] [OT] vernacular names for circular diagrams

[roger koenker]

Howard Wainer  (Graphical Discovery, PUP, 2005, p 20) gives
this dubious honor to Playfair (1759- 1823).   Nightingale (1820-
1910) was far too enlightened for this sort of thing, see for example
her letter to Galton about endowing an Oxford professorship
in social statistics (reprinted in Karl Pearson's bio of Galton:

http://galton.org/cgi-bin/searchImages/search/pearson/vol2/pages/vol2_0482.htm

It sets a very ambitious agenda that we have not yet made much  
progress on...


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On Jan 28, 2008, at 1:10 PM, Rolf Turner wrote:

>
> On 28/01/2008, at 12:07 AM, Peter Dalgaard wrote:
>
>> Jean lobry wrote:
>>>>
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> 	<snip>
>
>>>> about an hour North of Paris. Her father inquired -
>>>> coincidentally during the cheese course - what work I was
>>>> doing in Paris; I replied that I was researching the
>>>> activities of a Scot, William Playfair, during the
>>>> revolutionary period. I told him that Playfair had invented
>>>> several statistical graphs, including the pie chart
>
> 	<snip>
>
>
> I have been for many years under the impression that the pie chart
> was invented by Florence Nightingale.  Am I misinformed?
>
> 		cheers,
>
> 			Rolf Turner
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