process
abstraction
also: data abstractionRestating a concrete problem in terms of data and task types.
Classification
- process
Attestation
- English definition: Semiology of graphics: diagrams, networks, maps
Sources (52)
392 occurrences in the corpus; indexed by 5 books
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- A field guide to digital color
- Atlas of knowledge: anyone can map
- Ault, Nam Liao & Musolino, Principles of Data Science, OpenStax, 2025
- Building Science Graphics: An Illustrated Guide to Communicating Science through Diagra...
- Cartographies of Time
- Cartography: thematic map design
- Ciccione & Dehaene, The Neural Bases of Graphical Perception: A Novel Instance of Cultural Recycling?, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 2026↗
- Data Feminism
- Data fluency: empowering your organization with effective data communication
- Data points: visualization that means something
- Data sketches
- Data visualization handbook
- Data visualization literacy: Definitions, conceptual frameworks, exercises, and assessm...
- Data-driven storytelling
- dataphys.org
- Design for information: an introduction to the histories, theories, and best practices ...
- Envisioning information
- Friendly & Wainer, A History of Data Visualization and Graphic Communication, Harvard University Press, 2021
- Fundamentals of computer graphics
- Handling and mapping geographic information
- How maps work: representation, visualization, and design
- Info we trust: how to inspire the world with data
- Information theory tools for visualization
- Interactive data visualization: foundations, techniques, and applications
- Living in data: a citizen's guide to a better information
- Making and Breaking the Grid, Third Edition
- Making numbers count: the art and science of communicating numbers
- Munzner, Visualization Analysis and Design, 2014
- Open Visualization Academy, courses and newsletter (Cairo et al.)
- Progressive Data Analysis: Roadmap and Research Agenda
- Semiology of graphics: diagrams, networks, maps
- Show me the numbers: designing tables and graphs to enlighten
- The art of insight: how great visualization designers think
- The book of trees: visualizing branches of knowledge
- The elements of typographic style
- The eyes have it: A task by data type taxonomy for information visualizations
- The functional art: an introduction to information graphics and visualization
- The golden age of data visualization: how did we get here?
- The grammar of graphics
- The infographic history of the world
- The Oxford Handbook of Empirical Aesthetics
- The Truthful Art: Data, Charts, and Maps for Communication
- The visual display of quantitative information
- Thematic Cartography and Geovisualization
- UMATO: Bridging Local and Global Structures for Reliable Visual Analytics With Dimensio...
- Visual complexity: mapping patterns of information
- Visualization Analysis and Design
- Visualization of Time-Oriented Data
- Visualize This
- Visualizing with text
- Wickham, Navarro & Pedersen, ggplot2: Elegant Graphics for Data Analysis, 3rd ed. online↗
- Wikipedia in English↗
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ReferenceTaudière Adrien. 2026. abstraction. In Visualization Vocabulary, version 1.0.0. IdEst. https://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en-only/term/abstraction.html
BibTeX
@incollection{taudiere2026-abstraction,
author = {Taudière, Adrien},
title = {abstraction},
booktitle = {Visualization Vocabulary},
year = {2026},
version = {1.0.0},
publisher = {IdEst},
url = {https://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en-only/term/abstraction.html},
note = {CC0 1.0}
}Page created on 2026-10-13. Text last changed on 2026-11-10. Numbers computed on 2026-10-22.