HISA04H3 Lecture Notes - International Trade
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Amount of soldiers time route and direction of movement. International trade and the development of data graphics. International trade was one of the first examples of graphs because of scale. There was a lot of trade so there was a lot of data. Scottish: he was affected both by the. Very unreliable ( scoundrel": was charged with many offenses, had invented date occasionally. Between 1786 1801, he invented/modified time-series line graph: bar graph, pie graph. Dip in economy is at the same time as the american revolution. 19th century master if representative qualitative information. Time: show change over time efficiently and effectively. Causality: changes over time can be used to imply or argue about what caused it. Compression: bring large amounts of data into one graph. Comparison: can compare two large date sets dramatically. Being memorable: done well, graphs can create an image that sticks in the mind. Persuasion: can be a powerful tool to convince others of data.