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axis label
Text naming the variable carried by an axis and its unit.
Classification
- encoding
Attestation
- English definition: Data Visualisation Guide, data.europa.eu
Sources (21)
31 occurrences in the corpus; indexed by 3 books
Show the 21 sources
- Ault, Nam Liao & Musolino, Principles of Data Science, OpenStax, 2025
- Better data visualizations: a guide for scholars, researchers, and wonks
- blog.datawrapper.de↗
- Building Science Graphics: An Illustrated Guide to Communicating Science through Diagra...
- Cartography: thematic map design
- Data Visualisation Guide, data.europa.eu
- Data visualization handbook
- Data visualization: a practical introduction
- Data-driven storytelling
- Effective data storytelling: how to drive change with data, narrative, and visuals
- Information Graphics: A Comprehensive Illustrated Reference
- LibreTexts Statistics, textbook chapters on charts
- Living in data: a citizen's guide to a better information
- Open Visualization Academy, courses and newsletter (Cairo et al.)
- Practical charts: the essential guide to creating clear, compelling charts for reports ...
- Show me the numbers: designing tables and graphs to enlighten
- Storytelling with data: let's practice!
- The grammar of graphics
- Visualize This
- Wickham, Çetinkaya-Rundel & Grolemund, R for Data Science, 2nd ed., 2023
- Wickham, Navarro & Pedersen, ggplot2: Elegant Graphics for Data Analysis, 3rd ed. online↗
Cite this entry
Stable addresshttps://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en-only/term/axis-label.html
ReferenceTaudière Adrien. 2026. axis label. In Visualization Vocabulary, version 1.0.0. IdEst. https://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en-only/term/axis-label.html
BibTeX
@incollection{taudiere2026-axis-label,
author = {Taudière, Adrien},
title = {axis label},
booktitle = {Visualization Vocabulary},
year = {2026},
version = {1.0.0},
publisher = {IdEst},
url = {https://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en-only/term/axis-label.html},
note = {CC0 1.0}
}Page created on 2026-10-13. Text last changed on 2026-10-13. Images last changed on 2026-10-22. Numbers computed on 2026-10-22.