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

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

With the ironic last name to boot

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

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

What a goldmine of a blog. Interesting find!

Also, a quasi-Venn diagram of the German Empire on Pages 6–7 here: https://m-a.org.uk/resources/PE4LifeofPie.pdf