Today's contribution seeks to answer the question of how the history of the visual representation of temporal processes can be captured, and how the emergence of the statistical time series graph has influenced our ideas about time, history, and stories:
»On the Cultural History of Time Series Graphs« by Botond Szemes
https://zfdg.de/2024_001

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On the Cultural History of Time Series Graphs | ZfdG - Zeitschrift für digitale Geisteswissenschaften

Taking the insights from diagrammatology as background, this essay seeks to answer the question of how the history of visual representation of temporal processes can be captured, and how the emergence of the statistical time series graph has influenced our ideas about time, history, and stories.

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I kinda like the idea of summing up each day in my life with a squiggly line, showing the diversions and distractions. I do feel a need to "label the axis" but is that not in the spirit of this excercise?

What is this book? It looks neat...