Social science and psychology
- Guerry moral statistics maps André-Michel Guerry · 1833
- Fletcher moral statistics maps Joseph Fletcher · 1849
- Knapp's translated generating-curve construction Georg Friedrich Knapp · 1868
- Kinship diagram Lewis Henry Morgan (1871); William Halse Rivers Rivers (1910) · 1871-1910
- Becker's time-and-moment-of-birth diagram Karl Becker · 1874
- Walker's population pyramid Frederick H. Wines, in Walker's Statistical Atlas · 1874
- Lexis diagram Wilhelm Lexis · 1875
- Composite portraiture Francis Galton · 1878
- Galton number form Francis Galton · 1880-1881
- Booth poverty map Charles Booth · 1889
- Hull-House nationality and wage maps Florence Kelley and the Hull-House residents · 1895
- Concentric zone model Ernest Watson Burgess · 1925
- Central place hexagons Walter Christaller · 1933
- Sociogram Jacob L. Moreno · 1934
- Life space diagram Kurt Lewin · 1936
- Identified units under a middle-half band Works Progress Administration, Division of Social Research · 1937
- Hoyt sector model Homer Hoyt · 1939
- Target sociogram Mary Northway · 1940
- MMPI profile sheet Starke Rosecrans Hathaway and John Charnley McKinley · 1943
- Scalogram board Louis Guttman; E.A. Suchman · 1944/1950
- Multiple nuclei model Chauncy Dennison Harris and Edward Louis Ullman · 1945
- Sociomatrix Elaine Forsyth and Leo Katz · 1946
- Johari window Joseph Luft and Harrington Ingham · 1955
- Repertory grid George Kelly · 1955
- Structure of Intellect cube Joy Paul Guilford · 1955-1956
- Interpersonal circumplex Timothy Leary · 1957
- Semantic differential profile Charles Osgood · 1957
- Participatory ballot-box bar chart Hans Haacke · 1970
- Space-time aquarium Torsten Hägerstrand · 1970
- Ecomap Ann Hartman · 1975-1978
- Plutchik wheel of emotions Robert Plutchik · 1980
- Genogram Monica McGoldrick and Randy Gerson; concept from Murray Bowen · 1985