made numbers easier to understand -- William Playfair. Though his inventions -- bar graphs, line charts, and pie charts -- are used every day, his name is barely remembered. And Playfair's story ...

The preamble on last week’s chart quiz was about William Playfair, inventor of time-series graphs and irrepressible blaggard.

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