Charles Minard

Charles Minard was a 19th-century French mathematician and engineer renowned for his innovative data visualizations. His most famous work is a map depicting Napoleon's 1812 Russian campaign, illustrating troop movements, distances, temperatures, and casualties all in a single graphic. This visualization provides a powerful, clear view of complex data, highlighting how the army's size shrank as it advanced and retreated. Minard's work is celebrated for demonstrating the potential of data visualization to tell compelling, informative stories and remains influential in the fields of data analysis and graphic design.