chart
barcode plot
Every value drawn as a thin tick on a single axis.
Classification
- chart
- points and bubbles › dot strips
- distribution; Financial Times Visual Vocabulary
- the name evokes: object
Channels
position on common scale; main: value (thin line)
Attestation
- English definition: Financial Times Visual Vocabulary
Scientific literature
OpenAlex: 15 papers since 2020, 67% in the last five years; mostly in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Computer Science, Medicine
R packages
- R
ggplot2::geom_rug(); GitHub 7 025 stars; last commit 2026-10; paper (33 455 citations)
R code of the ggplot2 example
library(ggplot2)
library(HistData)
## `density2` corrects a value that Cavendish read as 5.88 instead of 4.88.
p <- ggplot(Cavendish, aes(x = density2)) +
geom_segment(aes(xend = density2, y = 0, yend = 1), colour = "#9b2367", linewidth = 0.6, alpha = 0.7) +
annotate("segment", x = 5.517, xend = 5.517, y = -0.08, yend = 1.08, colour = "#535353", linewidth = 0.4,
linetype = "dashed") +
annotate("text", x = 5.517, y = 1.14, label = "Modern value, 5.517", size = 3.2, colour = "#535353") +
scale_x_continuous(labels = lex_number, breaks = lex_break_breaks, expand = lex_break_expand) +
scale_y_continuous(NULL, breaks = NULL) +
labs(title = "Cavendish's 29 measurements surround the modern value",
subtitle = "Density of the Earth relative to water, 1798, one line per determination",
x = "Density of the Earth",
caption = "Data: Cavendish 1798, via the HistData R package") +
theme_lex_viz(grid = "", arrows = "x", break_not_zero = "x")Sources (6)
5 occurrences in the corpus
Cite this entry
Stable addresshttps://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en-only/term/barcode-plot.html
ReferenceTaudière Adrien. 2026. barcode plot. In Visualization Vocabulary, version 1.0.0. IdEst. https://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en-only/term/barcode-plot.html
BibTeX
@incollection{taudiere2026-barcode-plot,
author = {Taudière, Adrien},
title = {barcode plot},
booktitle = {Visualization Vocabulary},
year = {2026},
version = {1.0.0},
publisher = {IdEst},
url = {https://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en-only/term/barcode-plot.html},
note = {CC0 1.0}
}Page created on 2026-10-13. Text last changed on 2026-10-22. Images last changed on 2026-11-02. Numbers computed on 2026-10-22.