> Dear useRs, > > by a circular diagram representation I mean what you will get by entering > this at your R promt: > > pie(1:5) > > Nice to have R as a lingua franca :-) > > The folowing quote is from page 360 in this very interesting paper: > > @article{SpenceI2005, > title = {No Humble Pie: The Origins and Usage of a Statistical Chart}, > author = {Spence, I.}, > journal = {Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics}, > volume = {30}, > pages = {353-368}, > year = {2005} > } > > QUOTE > Like us, the French employ a gastronomical metaphor when > they refer to Playfair's pie chart, but they have preferred > instead to invoke the name of the wonderful round soft > cheese from Normandy - the camembert. When I spent 4 months > in Paris a few years ago, a friend invited my wife and me to > lunch with her elderly father who lives in Rouen, Normandy, > about an hour North of Paris. Her father inquired - > coincidentally during the cheese course - what work I was > doing in Paris; I replied that I was researching the > activities of a Scot, William Playfair, during the > revolutionary period. I told him that Playfair had invented > several statistical graphs, including the pie chart, which I > referred to, in French, as <<le camembert.>> After a stunned > silence of perhaps a couple of seconds, the distinguished > elderly gentleman looked me in the eye and exclaimed, <<Mon > Dieu ! Notre camembert?>> > UNQUOTE > > So, I'm just curious: how do you refer in your own language to > this kind of graphic? How do you call it? > > Best, > > JeanThanks to all who replied either privately or on the list. I have summarized the answers at the beginning of the following document: http://pbil.univ-lyon1.fr/members/lobry/R/diaposcam.pdf Let me know if you have more eatable examples. Best, Jean -- Jean R. Lobry (lobry at biomserv.univ-lyon1.fr) Laboratoire BBE-CNRS-UMR-5558, Univ. C. Bernard - LYON I, 43 Bd 11/11/1918, F-69622 VILLEURBANNE CEDEX, FRANCE allo : +33 472 43 27 56 fax : +33 472 43 13 88 http://pbil.univ-lyon1.fr/members/lobry/
Jean lobry wrote:>> Dear useRs, >> >> by a circular diagram representation I mean what you will get by entering >> this at your R promt: >> >> pie(1:5) >> >> Nice to have R as a lingua franca :-) >> >> The folowing quote is from page 360 in this very interesting paper: >> >> @article{SpenceI2005, >> title = {No Humble Pie: The Origins and Usage of a Statistical Chart}, >> author = {Spence, I.}, >> journal = {Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics}, >> volume = {30}, >> pages = {353-368}, >> year = {2005} >> } >> >> QUOTE >> Like us, the French employ a gastronomical metaphor when >> they refer to Playfair's pie chart, but they have preferred >> instead to invoke the name of the wonderful round soft >> cheese from Normandy - the camembert. When I spent 4 months >> in Paris a few years ago, a friend invited my wife and me to >> lunch with her elderly father who lives in Rouen, Normandy, >> about an hour North of Paris. Her father inquired - >> coincidentally during the cheese course - what work I was >> doing in Paris; I replied that I was researching the >> activities of a Scot, William Playfair, during the >> revolutionary period. I told him that Playfair had invented >> several statistical graphs, including the pie chart, which I >> referred to, in French, as <<le camembert.>> After a stunned >> silence of perhaps a couple of seconds, the distinguished >> elderly gentleman looked me in the eye and exclaimed, <<Mon >> Dieu ! Notre camembert?>> >> UNQUOTE >> >> So, I'm just curious: how do you refer in your own language to >> this kind of graphic? How do you call it? >> >> Best, >> >> Jean >> > > Thanks to all who replied either privately or on the list. I have > summarized the answers at the beginning of the following document: > > http://pbil.univ-lyon1.fr/members/lobry/R/diaposcam.pdf > > Let me know if you have more eatable examples. > > Best, > > Jean >Nice. Two minor points: - the illustration for Danish has a cake which is speaking Polish.... - "Stastistical" (on the ISI page) -- O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard ?ster Farimagsgade 5, Entr.B c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics PO Box 2099, 1014 Cph. K (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 ~~~~~~~~~~ - (p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk) FAX: (+45) 35327907
>Nice. Two minor points: > >- the illustration for Danish has a cake which is speaking Polish.... > >- "Stastistical" (on the ISI page) >Ooops! I have changed the picture and fixed the typo, Thanks. -- Jean R. Lobry (lobry at biomserv.univ-lyon1.fr) Laboratoire BBE-CNRS-UMR-5558, Univ. C. Bernard - LYON I, 43 Bd 11/11/1918, F-69622 VILLEURBANNE CEDEX, FRANCE allo : +33 472 43 27 56 fax : +33 472 43 13 88 http://pbil.univ-lyon1.fr/members/lobry/
On 28/01/2008, at 12:07 AM, Peter Dalgaard wrote:> Jean lobry wrote: >>><snip>>>> about an hour North of Paris. Her father inquired - >>> coincidentally during the cheese course - what work I was >>> doing in Paris; I replied that I was researching the >>> activities of a Scot, William Playfair, during the >>> revolutionary period. I told him that Playfair had invented >>> several statistical graphs, including the pie chart<snip> I have been for many years under the impression that the pie chart was invented by Florence Nightingale. Am I misinformed? cheers, Rolf Turner ###################################################################### Attention:\ This e-mail message is privileged and confid...{{dropped:9}}
> > On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 13:38:51 -0600, Roger Koenker wrote: > > Howard Wainer (Graphical Discovery, PUP, 2005, p 20) gives > this dubious honor to Playfair (1759- 1823). Nightingale (1820- > 1910) was far too enlightened for this sort of thing, see for example > her letter to Galton about endowing an Oxford professorship > in social statistics (reprinted in Karl Pearson's bio of Galton: > > >http://galton.org/cgi-bin/searchImages/search/pearson/vol2/pages/vol2_0482.htm > > It sets a very ambitious agenda that we have not yet made much > progress on...So, if the pie chart was invented by Florence Nightingale (1820-1910), then William Playfair (1759-1823) would be guilty of what the surrealists called a "plagiarism by anticipation". Best, -- Jean R. Lobry (lobry at biomserv.univ-lyon1.fr) Laboratoire BBE-CNRS-UMR-5558, Univ. C. Bernard - LYON I, 43 Bd 11/11/1918, F-69622 VILLEURBANNE CEDEX, FRANCE allo : +33 472 43 27 56 fax : +33 472 43 13 88 http://pbil.univ-lyon1.fr/members/lobry/