Editing Bar chart (section)

==History==

Many sources consider [[William Playfair]] (1759-1824) to have invented the bar chart and the ''Exports and Imports of Scotland to and from different parts for one Year from Christmas 1780 to Christmas 1781'' graph from his ''The Commercial and Political Atlas'' to be the first bar chart in history.  Diagrams of the velocity of a constantly accelerating object against time published in ''The Latitude of Forms'' (attributed to Jacobus de Sancto Martino or, perhaps, to [[Nicole Oresme]])<ref>{{citation |last=Clagett |first=Marshall |author-link=Marshall Clagett |date=1968 |title=Nicole Oresme and the Medieval Geometry of Qualities and Motions |publisher=Univ. of Wisconsin Press |place=Madison |pages=85–99 |isbn=0-299-04880-2}}</ref> about 300 years before can be interpreted as "proto bar charts".<ref>{{citation |last1=Beniger |first1=James R. |author-link=James R. Beniger |last2=Robyn |first2=Dorothy L. |year=1978 |title=Quantitative Graphics in Statistics: A Brief History |journal=The American Statistician |volume=32 |issue=1 |publisher=Taylor & Francis, Ltd. |pages=1–11 |jstor=2683467 |doi=10.1080/00031305.1978.10479235}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Der |first1=Geoff |last2=Everitt |first2=Brian S. |title=A Handbook of Statistical Graphics Using SAS ODS |publisher=Chapman and Hall - CRC |year=2014 |isbn=978-1-584-88784-3 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kB8bBAAAQBAJ}}</ref>