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In 1931, John B. Sparks distilled human civilization into a single chart. Even today, it’s great infographic design. If time is a river, the Histomap, created by John B. Sparks and first published by ...
The Enlightenment gave us many foundational ideas: Gravity! Democracy! Infographics! Wait, what? Yep. One of the age’s lesser-known byproducts was the niche field of “graphical statistics,” aka data ...