Charles Joseph Minard’s name is synonymous with an outstanding 1869 graphic depicting the horrific loss of life that Napoleon’s army suffered in 1812 and 1813, during its invasion of Russia ...

In The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, Edward Tufte calls Charles Joseph Minard’s graphic of Napoleon in Russia one of the “best statistical drawings ever created.” But what ...

The famous 19th century graph by Charles Joseph Minard showing Napoleon’s troops during the invasion of Russia is an intersection of data, illustration and storytelling. The graph depicts three ...

Charles Joseph Minard is arguably the world’s most famous data artist. By combining several data sets, including troop numbers, direction, temperature and terrain, he created in 1869 a visualization ...

In the early 19th century, the civil engineer Charles Joseph Minard's eloquently rendered charts convinced us that sometimes infographics trump text. They don't always work, of course—imagine ...

In the 19th century, Charles Joseph Minard charted a flow map of Napoleon’s disastrous Russian campaign from 1812-1813. The chart beautifully incorporated data, design, and storytelling—thus ...

The Minard System: The Complete Statistical Graphics of Charles-Joseph Minard by Sandra Rendgen. Princeton Architectural Press, 2018 ($60). French civil engineer Charles-Joseph Minard became ...

That is, when you’re making infographics that aren’t just dumb. Charles Joseph Minard‘s famous visual telling of Napoleon’s 1812 invasion of Russia is one of the first great examples ...

After the segment ended, I also mentioned to Mr. Virga another map, a statistical graphic by a French engineer, Charles Joseph Minard, that brilliantly describes Napoleon's invasion of Russia.

Data artists bridge the gap between business and IT by creating data visualizations that can be quickly understood by business leaders to help accelerate decision-making. Charles Joseph Minard is ...