ABSTRACT
One of the goals for Visible Numbers is to inspire other researchers to investigate and contribute to the developing field of data visualization scholarship. This annotated bibliography was created to assist scholars in such an endeavor. Scientists and analysts in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, tasked with plotting data spatially, turned to coordinate systems and tables. Michael Friendly's article traces the rapid expansion of statistical graphics that occurred during the last half of the nineteenth century, a period of time he labels the "Golden Age of Statistical Graphics." Friendly and Daniel J. Denis address the gap in the history of information graphing by tracing the scatterplot's development. Once others began to realize the scatterplot's value, its use grew quickly. By the first half of the twentieth century the graph became mainstream.
