Studied from its original page

Polar deviation ring

cartogramme à figures diagraphiques (the plate legend) · spirale (the legend's word for the line) · Mouvement quinquennal de la population française par département (plate title)

Made by: Ministère des Travaux Publics, Direction des Cartes et Plans (Album de statistique graphique, directed by Émile Cheysson)
Year: 1883
Field: Statistics
Kind: Data display
Room: Change over time

Polar deviation ring — Plate from Album de statistique graphique 1883David Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford University LibrariesLicence: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0Changes to the image: resized

See the original page — whole plate; legend lower left

Published 1883 (A) and a French government work well before 1955, with the directing author Cheysson dead since 1910 (B).

The data it needs

unit identity · categorical
date angle (elapsed time) · temporal · year
value radius (as ratio to reference) · quantitative · count
reference_date reference (per-unit override allowed) · temporal · year
location position (optional) · coordinates

Built in 7 steps, as its maker described

Plate 25 per the lead; 'Légende' lower left; Seine and France cartouches at left

Skeleton drawing, not the original plate

8 other forms share this skeleton

Source

Album de statistique graphique 1883

Attribution less certain: contested, or no single inventor recorded

Searches, not citations

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