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  2. William Playfair - Wikipedia

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    William Playfair (22 September 1759 – 11 February 1823) was a Scottish engineer and political economist. [1] The founder of graphical methods of statistics, [2] Playfair invented several types of diagrams: in 1786 he introduced the line, area and bar chart of economic data, and in 1801 he published what were likely the first pie chart and circle graph, used to show part-whole relations. [3]

  3. Staff (building material) - Wikipedia

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    Staff is a kind of artificial stone used for covering and ornamenting temporary buildings. Facade of the Fisheries Building, World's Columbian Exposition . Three pillared archways are constructed and finished, in front of a bare wall of wooden studding that has not yet been rendered.

  4. Area chart - Wikipedia

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    William Playfair is usually credited with inventing the area charts as well as the line, bar, and pie charts.His book The Commercial and Political Atlas, published in 1786, contained a number of time-series graphs, including Interest of the National Debt from the Revolution and Chart of all the Imports and Exports to and from England from the Year 1700 to 1782 that are often described as the ...

  5. Staff and line - Wikipedia

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    Staff and line are names given to different types of functions in organizations. A line function is one that directly advances an organization in its core work. [1] This always includes production and sales, and sometimes marketing. [2] A staff function supports the organization with specialized advisory and support functions. [3]

  6. Linear city (Soria design) - Wikipedia

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    The planning of Ciudad Lineal (1895-1910) published by Madrid Urbanization Company. Cross-section of a linear city, with wide highways with separate sections for vehicles, pedestrians and trams . The linear city is an urban plan for an elongated urban formation that was proposed by Arturo Soria y Mata in 1882. [ 1 ]

  7. Voronoi diagram - Wikipedia

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    Let be a metric space with distance function .Let be a set of indices and let () be a tuple (indexed collection) of nonempty subsets (the sites) in the space .The Voronoi cell, or Voronoi region, , associated with the site is the set of all points in whose distance to is not greater than their distance to the other sites , where is any index different from .

  8. EY fired dozens of staff members who attended 2 video ... - AOL

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    EY has reportedly dismissed a number of U.S. staffers after they were discovered to have attended two training sessions at the same time.. The employees were taking part in online classes this ...

  9. Gadabuursi - Wikipedia

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    As a Dir sub-clan, the Gadabuursi have immediate lineal ties with the Issa, the Surre (Abdalle and Qubeys), the Biimaal (who the Gaadsen also belong to), the Bajimal, the Bursuk, the Madigan Dir, the Gurgura, the Garre (the Quranyow sub-clan to be precise as they claim descent from Dir), Gurre, Gariire, other Dir sub-clans and they have lineal ties with the Hawiye (Irir), Hawadle, Ajuran ...