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cone of uncertainty
Cone-shaped area around the forecast track of a hurricane showing uncertainty about the position of its center.
Classification
- encoding
Attestation
- English definition: Cairo, How Charts Lie, 2019
Sources (8)
19 occurrences in the corpus; indexed by 1 book
- Cairo, How Charts Lie, 2019
- Computational statistics in data science
- Data Visualisation Guide, data.europa.eu
- How charts lie: getting smarter about visual information
- Open Visualization Academy, courses and newsletter (Cairo et al.)
- The art of insight: how great visualization designers think
- Visualizing Uncertainty About the Future
- Wikipedia in English↗
Cite this entry
Stable addresshttps://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en-only/term/cone-of-uncertainty.html
ReferenceTaudière Adrien. 2026. cone of uncertainty. In Visualization Vocabulary, version 1.0.0. IdEst. https://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en-only/term/cone-of-uncertainty.html
BibTeX
@incollection{taudiere2026-cone-of-uncertainty,
author = {Taudière, Adrien},
title = {cone of uncertainty},
booktitle = {Visualization Vocabulary},
year = {2026},
version = {1.0.0},
publisher = {IdEst},
url = {https://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en-only/term/cone-of-uncertainty.html},
note = {CC0 1.0}
}Page created on 2026-10-13. Text last changed on 2026-10-13. Images last changed on 2026-10-13. Numbers computed on 2026-10-22.