Article,
A Brief History of the Mosaic Display
Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, 11 (1): pp. 89-107 (2002)
Abstract
This article provides an illustrated history of the visual and conceptual ideas leading to the development of mosaic displays. We trace the origins of the use of rectangles and area to depict data quantities and their relations, of early forms of mosaic displays including subdivided bar-like charts and various cartograms, to the modern forms used in log-linear analysis and in space-filling tree maps.
