Charles Minard's map of Napoleon's disastrous Russian campaign of 1812. The graphic is notable for its representation in two dimensions of six types of data: the number of Napoleon's troops; distance; temperature; the latitude and longitude; direction of travel; and location relative to specific dates. [ 5 ]

Jul 23, 2010 · The map was the work of Charles Joseph Minard (1781-1870), a French civil engineer who was an inspector-general of bridges and roads, but whose most remembered legacy is in the field of ...

Mar 22, 2019 · The Frenchman Charles-Joseph Minard’s figurative maps of the French army’s loss during Napoleon’s campaign against Russia in 1812-13 is one of the field’s classics. Research on data visualization. Graphs, charts and colorful maps. We meet them almost every day, in the news media, in the textbooks and in the information campaigns.

Jun 26, 2024 · Figurative Map of the successive losses in men of the French Army in the Russian campaign 1812–1813. Drawn up by M. Minard, Inspector General of Bridges and Roads in retirement. Paris, 20 November 1869.

Jun 8, 2014 · In The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, Edward Tufte calls Minard’s graphic of Napoleon in Russia one of the “best statistical drawings ever created.” But what makes it so good? Before we analyze this graphic, we need to know a bit of history.

This map, drawn by French engineer Charles Joseph Minard, shows Napoleon’s disastrous invasion of Russia in 1812, three years before the Battle of Waterloo.

Jul 17, 2014 · “Minard brings together various modes of information in order to describe troop movements and the war’s consequences: a paragraph of words, a map with narrating flow-lines, and a statistical graphic dangling from the map.

Mar 16, 2017 · Charles Minard pioneered several thematic mapping techniques. The maps in this image depict the origin and amount of cotton imported into Europe in 1858, 1864, and 1865. He’s known for his...

May 26, 2014 · Generally considered as the first data visualization, the figurative map of Charles Joseph Minard (1869) shows the path of Napoleon's troops across the Russian Empire of Alexander I. Using amazingly simple and modern graphical codes, this map displays the progress of the troops in the form of a stream whose width indicates the size of the…

Deutsch: Karte von Charles Minards aus dem Jahre 1869. Diese zeigt den Verlust an Soldaten, die Truppenbewegungen und die Temperaturen im Laufe von Napoleons Russlandfeldzug im Oktober (8bre) und November (9bre). Lithographie, 62 × 30 cm.