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Alt: inventor of the pie chart. AS SEEN ON QI(
Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 12 Oct 2012, 11:38,
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Yes.www.kdnuggets.com/news/2008/n07/22i.html
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Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 12 Oct 2012, 11:40,
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The earliest known pie chart is generally credited to William Playfair's Statistical Breviary of 1801, in which two such graphs are used.[2][3] This invention was not widely used at first;[2] the French engineer Charles Joseph Minard was one of the first to use it in 1858, in particular in maps where he needs to add information in a third dimension.[22] It has been said that Florence Nightingale invented it, though in fact she just popularised it and she was later assumed to have created it due to the obscurity of Playfair's creation.[23]
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I SHALL NEVER TRUST ALAN DAVIES AGAIN(
Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 12 Oct 2012, 11:42,
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HE SEEMED SO PLAUSIBLE ON THE TELEVISION PROGRAMME(
Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 12 Oct 2012, 11:45,
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IT'S LIKE THOSE CARAVANNING HOLIDAYS WITH 'SIRJIMMEH' ALL OVER AGAIN.(
Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 12 Oct 2012, 11:46,
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You mean 'see what it says on Wikipedia'?(
tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Fri 12 Oct 2012, 11:45,
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it was just another way for her to have a dig at that poor, starving black chick(, Fri 12 Oct 2012, 11:42, Reply)
Fuck Florence NightingaleAll the kids are into Mary Seacole these days, bro.
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