HUNGARIAN CLASSICS

Attila Bátorfy, ELTE MMI, Átló

MOME OPEN SU, Data Vandals: Creative Approaches for City Data
Budapest, 20-21 August 2025

A SELECTION FROM THE HISTORY OF HUNGARIAN INFORMATION GRAPHICS AND DATA VISUALIZATION

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digital collection: 2000+ / physical collection: 100+

Luigi Ferdinando Marsigli - Mappa Metallographica..., Danubius Pannonico-Mysicus, 1726

two perspectives: cross-section view and bird's eye view (vogelperspektive)

Imre (Emericus) Milecz: Mappa Regni Hungariae demonstrans universas caesareo regias salis stationes. Regis Hungariae, Croatiae, Schlavonia, magni item Principatui Transilvaniae ingremiatas, Posonii, 1773. OSZK
 

First flow map?
salt trade
new method

multiplication of lines
according to quantity

Henry Drury Harness, 1837

Charles-Joseph Minard, 1869

Pál Kitaibel and Ádám Tomcsányi - Earthquake at Mór, 1810, Széchenyi National Library

first isoseist line. a line on a map connecting points with the same seismic intensity

? Müller - Postal Network between Vienna and Galatz, 1868, Postal Museum

Harry Beck: London Tube Map, 1931–1933

Gyula Rakssányi - Synchronistic Map of the 1848/49 Freedom Fight and Revolution, Pallas, 1879

Gyula Rakssányi - Synchronistic Map of the History of Hungary, Pallas, 1879

József Kőrösy - The buildings of Budapest, 1894, 1898

Willard Brinton: Graphic Methods for Presenting Facts, 1914/19

Otto and Marie Neurath, Gerd Arntz:
Gesellschaft und Wirtschaft, 1930

George Mulhall: A Dictionary of Statistics, 1886

Pál Balogh and Kocsárd Proff - The Ethnicities of Hungary, 1902

Andor Zulawski - Technical Schools in Hungary, 1909

packed circles method

Károly Kogutowitz and Zsigmond Bátky - Ethnic Map of Hungary, 1918

Football graphics by Nemzeti Sport 1922–1944, 1922

Football graphics by Nemzeti Sport 1922–1944, 1932

The three statistical album of Budapest by Lajos Illyefalvi, 1933

Albert Gerhauser (Házy) - Biographical table of Hungarian authors and poets, 1936

Virgil Bierbauer - Population growth of the 25 cities around Budapest between 1830 and 1939, 1940

polar streamgraph?

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