Link: Joint Committee on Standards for Graphic Presentation (1915)
An article in the Publications of the American Statistical Association by the Joint Committee on Standards for Graphic Presentation laid down some standards for how to create good data visualizations. In 1915. The chairman of that committee was none other than Willard C. Brinton, author of the highly opinionated (and much more complete) Graphic Methods for Presenting Facts. Andy Cotgreave is collecting some tidbits and highlights from Brinton's books.
Posted by Robert Kosara on February 18, 2015. Filed under blog/2015.