Change over time

Studied from its original page

Logarithmic retrospect chart

retrospective projection · historical retrospect with reversed log plotting for the time axis

Made by
Karl G. Karsten
Year
1923
Field
Economics and markets
Kind
Data display
Room
Change over time

Not shown here: its rights are not cleared

See the original page — Fig. 385, printed p. 474 (archive leaf n531)

Test A passes (published 1923) but test B fails: Karsten died in 1968 (B would run to 2038).

The data it needs

  • series identity · categorical
  • date position, converted to time before the origin · temporal
  • value value · quantitative · per series

Built in 5 steps, as its maker described

running head 'Shifted Zero-Points', pp. 472-475, Figs. 385-386

Skeleton drawing, not the original plate

121 other forms share this skeleton

Source

Karsten 1923, Charts and Graphs

Attribution checked against the source

Searches, not citations

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