The History of Information Graphics

Lesson 9
- 20th century

  • new statistical concepts

  • new visual language

  • representation

  • interactivity

  • animation

  • ​​mass media

WEB DuBois and the Paris Exhibition in 1900

The Neuraths and the Isotype
International System of Typographic Picture Education

Michael George Mulhall - Dictionary of Statistics, 1892

Geselltschaft und WIrtschaftmuseum, Vienna, 1924

Jacob Moreno - Who Shall Survive, sociograms, 1934

Popular Information Graphics
Fortune, National Geographic

Interactivity

John Tukey and his colleagues, first interactive manipulation of visualization, 1974

  • Ben Shneiderman, 1990

  • Adrian Holovaty - Chicagocrime.com, 2005

  • Hans Rosling, 2005