CIS 3365 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Seasonality, Spacetime, Hyperbolic Geometry
16 Dec 2020
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By that time, european cartography had come close to achieving statistical graphicacy, even approaching scatterplots. No one had made the quantitative abstraction of placing a measured quantity on the map"s surface. Let alone the more difficult abstraction of replacing latitude and longitude with some other dimensions. One of the first data maps is a world chart showing trade winds and monsoons (1689) Edmond halley (1656-1742) was an english astronomer, geophysicist, mathematician, meteorologist, and physicist. Best known for computing the orbit of a comet. An early and worthy use of a map to chart non-geographical patterns is the famous. On august 31, 1854, cholera broke out in the broad street area (soho) of central london. Over 500 people died at that time such diseases were believed to be caused by bad air a physician, dr. john snow (1813-1858), was skeptical about this theory. On a map of the area, he marked deaths by dots.
