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Ce livre documentaire aux magnifiques illustrations souligne le g?nie de William Playfair, n? en ?cosse il y a 250 ans. La vision diff?rente du monde de ce grand cerveau ne lui a pas toujours rendu la vie facile. En fait, il se retrouvait souvent incompris de ses amis, de sa famille et de ses patrons. Mais il s'est d?marqu? par sa vision innovatrice de repr?senter les chiffres en inventant les graphiques lin?aires, les diagrammes en barres et les diagrammes circulaires. Les chiffres illustr?s... quelle id?e de g?nie

Born in Scotland over 250 years ago, William Playfair was a dreamer who saw the word differently from other people. Unfortunately, this skill didn't easily translate into the fame and fortune he hoped for. In fact, it often got him in trouble with family, friends and bosses. But Will's innovative vision did inspire a big idea that would set him apart: he turned numbers into pictures by creating line graphs, bar graphs and pie charts Numbers as pictures? There's an idea that's off the charts

Original title: Lines, Bars and Circles: How William Playfair Invented Graphics