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    • Nowadays, statistics are used in nearly all dimensions of life – e.g. science, business, economics, mass media, medicine, etc. Have you ever wondered about their history? Modern statistical charts were invented at the end of the 18th Century by the Scottish engineer and political economist William Playfair, who served as a secret agent on behalf of Great Britain during its war with France. From 1786 to 1801, a period characterized by an astonishing boom in innovation, Playfair was the founder of graphical methods of statistics and produced the first known graphical representations – the bar chart, line chart, and pie chart.