Abstract
In science and engineering graphics are essential part of the presentation of information.
Modern data graphics can do much more than simply substitute for small statistical tables. At their best, graphics are instruments for reasoning about quantitative information. Often the most effective way to describe, explore and summarise a set of numbers — even a large set — is to look at pictures of those numbers.
Edward R Tufte, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information.
A picture paints a thousand words.
Reportedly first used by Frederick R. Barnard in Printer’s Ink (December, 1921), while commenting that graphics can tell a story as effectively as a large amount of descriptive text.
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Chivers, I., Sleightholme, J. (2018). Graphics Libraries - Simple Dislin Usage. In: Introduction to Programming with Fortran. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-75502-1_41
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