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2008 Jan 27
4
[OT] vernacular names for circular diagrams
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> 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...
2007 Dec 11
1
[OT] vernacular names for circular diagrams
...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...