data
discrete variable
Variable taking only countably many values.
Classification
- data
Sources (9)
10 occurrences in the corpus; indexed by 1 book
- Ault, Nam Liao & Musolino, Principles of Data Science, OpenStax, 2025
- Data points: visualization that means something
- Handling and mapping geographic information
- Information Graphics: A Comprehensive Illustrated Reference
- The Truthful Art: Data, Charts, and Maps for Communication
- Wickham, Çetinkaya-Rundel & Grolemund, R for Data Science, 2nd ed., 2023
- Wickham, Navarro & Pedersen, ggplot2: Elegant Graphics for Data Analysis, 3rd ed. online↗
- Wikipedia in English↗
- Wilke, Fundamentals of Data Visualization, O'Reilly, 2019
Cite this entry
Stable addresshttps://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en-only/term/discrete-variable.html
ReferenceTaudière Adrien. 2026. discrete variable. In Visualization Vocabulary, version 1.0.0. IdEst. https://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en-only/term/discrete-variable.html
BibTeX
@incollection{taudiere2026-discrete-variable,
author = {Taudière, Adrien},
title = {discrete variable},
booktitle = {Visualization Vocabulary},
year = {2026},
version = {1.0.0},
publisher = {IdEst},
url = {https://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en-only/term/discrete-variable.html},
note = {CC0 1.0}
}Page created on 2026-10-13. Text last changed on 2026-10-13. Numbers computed on 2026-10-22.