The first line, bar and pie charts
Imports and exports as two lines with the gap between them shaded: the time series, the bar chart and later the pie all arrive in one man’s atlases. Nearly every chart on this site is a descendant.
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By
William Playfair · 1786
Where
Public statistics · Trade and economics
Form
Static image · to inform
Visual
Position, Length, Sequence
Data
English trade balances, in the Commercial and Political Atlas
Original