If anyone is interested in seeing "Nightingale's Coxcomb" a.k.a. "Nightingale's Rose", it can be seen at http://www.economist.com/world/europe/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10278643.
Best regards, Peter. -----Oprindelig meddelelse----- Fra: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] På vegne af Rolf Turner Sendt: 28. januar 2008 20:54 Til: roger koenker Cc: r-help Emne: Re: [R] [OT] vernacular names for circular diagrams Thank you! cheers, Rolf On 29/01/2008, at 8:38 AM, roger koenker wrote: > Howard Wainer (Graphical Discovery, PUP, 2005, p 20) gives > this dubious honor to Playfair (1759- 1823). Nightingale (1820- > 1910) was far too enlightened for this sort of thing, see for example > her letter to Galton about endowing an Oxford professorship > in social statistics (reprinted in Karl Pearson's bio of Galton: > > http://galton.org/cgi-bin/searchImages/search/pearson/vol2/pages/ > vol2_0482.htm > > It sets a very ambitious agenda that we have not yet made much > progress on... > > > url: www.econ.uiuc.edu/~roger Roger Koenker > email [EMAIL PROTECTED] Department of Economics > vox: 217-333-4558 University of Illinois > fax: 217-244-6678 Champaign, IL 61820 > > > On Jan 28, 2008, at 1:10 PM, Rolf Turner wrote: > >> >> On 28/01/2008, at 12:07 AM, Peter Dalgaard wrote: >> >>> Jean lobry wrote: >>>>> >> >> <snip> >> >>>>> about an hour North of Paris. Her father inquired - >>>>> coincidentally during the cheese course - what work I was >>>>> doing in Paris; I replied that I was researching the >>>>> activities of a Scot, William Playfair, during the >>>>> revolutionary period. I told him that Playfair had invented >>>>> several statistical graphs, including the pie chart >> >> <snip> >> >> >> I have been for many years under the impression that the pie chart >> was invented by Florence Nightingale. Am I misinformed? >> >> cheers, >> >> Rolf Turner >> >> ##################################################################### >> # >> Attention:\ This e-mail message is privileged and confid... >> {{dropped:9}} >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-help@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >> PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting- >> guide.html >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > ###################################################################### Attention:\ This e-mail message is privileged and confid...{{dropped:9}} ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
