Change over time

Studied from its original page

Standard-gauge historical-curve atlas

the sheaf (Marshall's image) · historical curves on a standard gauge

Made by
Alfred Marshall
Year
1885
Field
Economics and markets
Kind
Data display
Room
Change over time
Standard-gauge historical-curve atlas
Plate from Marshall 1885, On the Graphic Method of Statistics, Journal of the Statistical Society, Jubilee VolumeInternet Archive, Wellcome Library

See the original page — Diagrams A and B, plate between pp. 256 and 257 (archive leaf n301)

Published 1885 (A) and Marshall died in 1924, so life+70 ended in 1994 (B).

The data it needs

  • series identity · categorical
  • date axis · temporal · year
  • value value · quantitative · the series' own unit
  • subject grouping (page) · categorical
  • place grouping (optional; country) · categorical

Built in 6 steps, as its maker described

pp. 251-260; Diagrams A and B on the plate between pp. 256 and 257 (archive leaf n301)

Skeleton drawing, not the original plate

121 other forms share this skeleton

Source

Marshall 1885, On the Graphic Method of Statistics, Journal of the Statistical Society, Jubilee Volume

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