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The World Bank began publishing its Atlas of Socioeconomic statistics in the late Sixties. As a college intern under the direction and patient tutelage of Statistician Joseph E. Gholl, I was assigned to hand draw many of the maps for the 1969 edition on graph paper. The process of converting each million dollar unit of GNP into a box on graph paper while trying to maintain some general reference to the physical shape of the country was tedious but illuminating, giving me added appreciation for the functionality and productivity of visualization technology today..