Andrew Gelman (whose appreciation of comics is well-known, at least in my circles!) and Susan Kruglinski, doctoral student at The University of Texas at Austin, wrote a fantastic piece on the parallels between statistical graphics and cartoons and comic strips, which recently got published in a magazine, the appropriately named Nightingale, published by the Data Visualization Society. In particular, they manage to associate most convincingly iconic statistical graphics, like the one above produced by Galton to illustrate his novel concept of correlation, with visually close caricatures and cartoons, like this depiction of Napoléon as a spider at the centre of a web, with flies caught there, representing puppet states or about to fall under French influence, with the exception of the British fly…
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