alleryWho is considered by many to have invented the bar chart?
AKarl Pearson
BWilliam Playfair
CCharles Minard
DFrancis Hauksbee
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: B. William Playfair
Many sources credit William Playfair, whose 1786 Commercial and Political Atlas holds the first bar chart.
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