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Lines, bars and circles

by Helaine Becker

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More than 250 years ago, William Playfair's innovative vision inspired an idea that would set him apart: he created the first modern line graph. These infographic inventions provided a way for numbers to be seen as pictures, changing the way the world would interact with data forever.

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