Diagram: hexbin map — Drawing: Adrien Taudière (CC0)

map

hexbin map

Spatial aggregation into hexagonal cells.

Classification

map
maps › cartograms
spatial

Attestation

English definition: Data Visualisation Guide, data.europa.eu

Scientific literature

OpenAlex: 2 papers since 2025, 100% in the last five years; mostly in Computer Science, Environmental Science

R packages

R ggplot2::geom_hex(); GitHub 7 025 stars; last commit 2026-10; paper (33 455 citations)

Sources (3)

Cite this entry

Stable addresshttps://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en-only/term/hexbin-map.html

ReferenceTaudière Adrien. 2026. hexbin map. In Visualization Vocabulary, version 1.0.0. IdEst. https://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en-only/term/hexbin-map.html

BibTeX

@incollection{taudiere2026-hexbin-map,
  author    = {Taudière, Adrien},
  title     = {hexbin map},
  booktitle = {Visualization Vocabulary},
  year      = {2026},
  version   = {1.0.0},
  publisher = {IdEst},
  url       = {https://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en-only/term/hexbin-map.html},
  note      = {CC0 1.0}
}

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