Change over time

Values in order: along the years, the hours, or any scale that runs one way. The forms here show how a value moves along it.

Redrawn by us 1

• Diagramme planétaire

  Émile Cheysson, Ministère des Travaux publics (Album de statistique graphique) · 1897

  Goods moved in France: one ray per four-year period around a hub, with circles sized by tonnage set along a spiral.

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  Farr circular mortality diagram

  William Farr · 1852

• Semi-logarithmic (ratio) chart

  William Stanley Jevons; codified by Irving Fisher · 1863

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  Clinical temperature chart

  Carl Wunderlich · 1868

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  Polar deviation ring

  Ministère des Travaux Publics, Direction des Cartes et Plans (Album de statistique graphique, directed by Émile Cheysson) · 1883

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  Standard-gauge historical-curve atlas

  Alfred Marshall · 1885

• Lag determination by superimposed tracings

  Willard C. Brinton (given as working practice) · 1914

• Climograph (hythergraph)

  Griffith Taylor · 1915-1916

  A place's twelve months drawn as one closed loop that relates wet-bulb temperature and humidity.

• Graphical string-lining chart

  H. M. Church, Division Engineer, Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, Baltimore · 1915

• Logarithmic retrospect chart

  Karl G. Karsten · 1923

• Silhouette bar-chart

  Karl G. Karsten (name and account); his examples draw on the Survey of Current Business, and one is credited to Carl Snyder · 1923

• Stüve diagram (pseudo-adiabatic chart)

  Georg Stüve · 1927

• Rossby diagram

  C.-G. Rossby · 1932

• Hjulström curve

  Filip Hjulström · 1935

• Identified units under a middle-half band

  Works Progress Administration, Division of Social Research · 1937

• Bartels musical diagram

  Julius Bartels (with N. H. Heck and H. F. Johnston) · 1939

• The Wetzel Grid

  Norman C. Wetzel · 1941

• Thermoisopleth diagram

  Carl Troll · 1943

• Ombrothermic diagram

  Henri Gaussen and Fernand Bagnouls · 1953-1957