process
caption
also: figure captionText under the figure identifying and explaining it.
Classification
- process
Attestation
- English definition: Nature and PLOS author guidelines↗
Sources (53)
140 occurrences in the corpus; indexed by 3 books
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- 100 diagrams that changed the world: from the earliest cave paintings to the innovation...
- Applied Multivariate Statistics in R
- Ault, Nam Liao & Musolino, Principles of Data Science, OpenStax, 2025
- Beautiful evidence
- Better data visualizations: a guide for scholars, researchers, and wonks
- Building Science Graphics: An Illustrated Guide to Communicating Science through Diagra...
- Cartographies of Time
- Cartography: thematic map design
- Data Feminism
- Data sketches
- Data Visualisation Guide, data.europa.eu
- Data visualisation: a handbook for data driven design
- Data visualization handbook
- Data visualization: a practical introduction
- Data-driven storytelling
- dataphys.org
- datawrapper.de↗
- Design for information: an introduction to the histories, theories, and best practices ...
- Elavsky, Chartability: POUR-CAF accessibility heuristics
- Exploratory Data Analysis: Descriptive Analysis, Visualization, and Dashboard Design (w...
- Friendly & Wainer, A History of Data Visualization and Graphic Communication, Harvard University Press, 2021
- Graphic presentation
- Graphics for learning: proven guidelines for planning, designing, and evaluating visual...
- How charts lie: getting smarter about visual information
- How to lie with statistics
- Impossible to ignore: creating memorable content to influence decisions
- Information Graphics: A Comprehensive Illustrated Reference
- Interactive data visualization: foundations, techniques, and applications
- LibreTexts Statistics, textbook chapters on charts
- Living in data: a citizen's guide to a better information
- Making and Breaking the Grid, Third Edition
- Nature and PLOS author guidelines↗
- Nature, formatting guide↗
- Open Visualization Academy, courses and newsletter (Cairo et al.)
- PLOS, figure guidelines↗
- Questions in Dataviz: A Design-Driven Process for Data Visualisation
- sronpersonalpages.nl
- The art of insight: how great visualization designers think
- The book of circles: visualizing spheres of knowledge
- The elements of graphing data
- The elements of typographic style
- The golden age of data visualization: how did we get here?
- The Truthful Art: Data, Charts, and Maps for Communication
- The visual display of quantitative information
- The Wall Street journal guide to information graphics: the dos and don'ts of presenting...
- Thematic Cartography and Geovisualization
- Visual explanations: images and quantities, evidence and narrative
- Visualization Analysis and Design
- Wickham, Çetinkaya-Rundel & Grolemund, R for Data Science, 2nd ed., 2023
- Wickham, Navarro & Pedersen, ggplot2: Elegant Graphics for Data Analysis, 3rd ed. online↗
- wiki.wordsoftype.com
- Wikipedia in English↗
- Wilke, Fundamentals of Data Visualization, O'Reilly, 2019
Cite this entry
Stable addresshttps://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en-only/term/caption.html
ReferenceTaudière Adrien. 2026. caption. In Visualization Vocabulary, version 1.0.0. IdEst. https://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en-only/term/caption.html
BibTeX
@incollection{taudiere2026-caption,
author = {Taudière, Adrien},
title = {caption},
booktitle = {Visualization Vocabulary},
year = {2026},
version = {1.0.0},
publisher = {IdEst},
url = {https://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en-only/term/caption.html},
note = {CC0 1.0}
}Page created on 2026-10-13. Text last changed on 2026-11-10. Images last changed on 2026-10-22. Numbers computed on 2026-10-22.