William Playfair
Engineer, Author
1759 – 1823
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Who was William Playfair?
William Playfair was a Scottish engineer and political economist, the founder of graphical methods of statistics.
William Playfair invented four types of diagrams: in 1786 the line graph and bar chart of economic data, and in 1801 the pie chart and circle graph, used to show part-whole relations.
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- Born
- Sep 22, 1759
Benvie - Siblings
- Nationality
- Scotland
- Profession
- Died
- Feb 11, 1823
London
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on July 23, 2013
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