perception
graphical perception
Study of how accurately graphical encodings are read.
Classification
- perception
Attestation
- English definition: The elements of graphing data
Sources (31)
166 occurrences in the corpus; indexed by 3 books
Show the 31 sources
- Atlas of knowledge: anyone can map
- Better data visualizations: a guide for scholars, researchers, and wonks
- Cartography: thematic map design
- Ciccione & Dehaene, The Neural Bases of Graphical Perception: A Novel Instance of Cultural Recycling?, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 2026↗
- Ciccione et al., Trend Judgment as a Perceptual Building Block of Graphicacy and Mathematics, Scientific Reports, 2023↗
- Ciccione, « The Perception and Understanding of Patterns and Graphics », colloque Seeing the Mind, Educating the Brain, Collège de France, 2025↗
- Cleveland & McGill, Graphical Perception, JASA, 1984↗
- Computational statistics in data science
- Data points: visualization that means something
- Data visualisation: a handbook for data driven design
- Data visualization literacy: Definitions, conceptual frameworks, exercises, and assessm...
- Data visualization: a practical introduction
- Data-driven storytelling
- Effective data storytelling: how to drive change with data, narrative, and visuals
- Effective data visualization: the right chart for the right data
- Friendly & Wainer, A History of Data Visualization and Graphic Communication, Harvard University Press, 2021
- Graphical Perception: Theory, Experimentation, and Application to the Development of Gr...
- How maps work: representation, visualization, and design
- Information Graphics: A Comprehensive Illustrated Reference
- Interactive data visualization: foundations, techniques, and applications
- Milestones in the history of thematic cartography, statistical graphics, and data visua...
- The elements of graphing data
- The functional art: an introduction to information graphics and visualization
- The grammar of graphics
- The Truthful Art: Data, Charts, and Maps for Communication
- The visual display of quantitative information
- Visualization Analysis and Design
- Visualization of Time-Oriented Data
- Visualizing with text
- Wikipedia — Data and information visualization
- Wikipedia in English↗
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ReferenceTaudière Adrien. 2026. graphical perception. In Visualization Vocabulary, version 1.0.0. IdEst. https://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en-only/term/graphical-perception.html
BibTeX
@incollection{taudiere2026-graphical-perception,
author = {Taudière, Adrien},
title = {graphical perception},
booktitle = {Visualization Vocabulary},
year = {2026},
version = {1.0.0},
publisher = {IdEst},
url = {https://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en-only/term/graphical-perception.html},
note = {CC0 1.0}
}Page created on 2026-10-13. Text last changed on 2026-11-10. Numbers computed on 2026-10-22.