ch00-intro.Rmd

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title: Introduction
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```{r setup, echo=FALSE, warning=FALSE, message=FALSE}
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library(knitr)
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```
> *The only new thing in the world is the history you don't know.* --- **Harry S. Truman, quoted by David McCulloch**


<div class="chapterintro"><div class="chapterprelude">
#### Synopsis {-}

This book recounts a long history, a broad overview of how, where, and why the
methods of data visualization, so common today, were conceived and developed.
You can think of it as a guided tour of this history, focusing on social and
scientific questions and a developing language of graphics that provided
insights, for both discovery and communication. 

This [introductory chapter](pdf/HistDataVis-Ch0.pdf), provided here as a PDF file, gives the origin story of this book and provides and overview of the main themes and content of the book.

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<div class="chaptercontents">
#### Chapter contents

* A Long History
* Overview
	+ Re-Visions 
	+ Chronology versus Theme
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## Selected Figures

```{r results="asis", echo=FALSE, message=FALSE, warning=FALSE}
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```