Standard modern absztrakció: Statisztika és adatvizualizáció a 19. században
Standard modern abstraction: Statistics and data visualization in the Nineteenth century

Summary/Abstract: The study examines the beginnings and nineteenth-century rise of data visualization, the graphical method of statistical science that emerged at the end of the eighteenth century. First, I focus on the methods that relate to nineteenth-century modernity’s changing thinking, vision, and practices of notation and observation, which point towards decentralization, functionality, organization, and abstraction. I also examine how the graphical method borrowed and later departed from cartography; the method’s forms of visual abstraction, its basic types still used today; the diversity of data collected and represented, from more primary demographic data and the analysis of economic processes to the mapping of social issues and the analysis of cultural and consumption habits; and the issue of the acceptance of the graphical method and the efforts to standardize its use during the nineteenth century.

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