William Playfair

From Wikipedia: "William Playfair (22 September 1759 – 11 February 1823) was a Scottish engineer and political economist, the founder of graphical methods of statistics."

Had fun reading that? READ IT AGAIN. Look, "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"

Exactly.

For anyone who's ever done A-Level Physics, think back to the countless pointless graphs you had to draw again and again of this and that. Or for everyone, think back to GCSE and lower school, the countless pie charts, bar charts, line graphs and so on! DO YOU REMEMBER THESE?

I elect we build a time machine and travel back in time (Terminator) and prevent this from ever happening. Sure, it may ruin science and maths as we know them, but surely that's worth it?

I write this post in sheer frustration as I redraw a graph for Chemistry for the fifth time.

Thanks, Will.

Matt.