Visualization VocabularyDataviz vocabulary
Diagram: apophenia
Drawing: Adrien Taudière (CC0)

critique

apophenia

also: patternicity

Perception of structure in purely random data.

Classification

  • critique

Sources (6)

17 occurrences in the corpus; indexed by 3 books

Cite this entry

Stable addresshttps://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en-only/term/apophenia.html

ReferenceTaudière Adrien. 2026. apophenia. In Visualization Vocabulary, version 1.0.0. IdEst. https://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en-only/term/apophenia.html

BibTeX
@incollection{taudiere2026-apophenia,
  author    = {Taudière, Adrien},
  title     = {apophenia},
  booktitle = {Visualization Vocabulary},
  year      = {2026},
  version   = {1.0.0},
  publisher = {IdEst},
  url       = {https://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en-only/term/apophenia.html},
  note      = {CC0 1.0}
}

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