data
independent variable
Variable that is varied and does not depend on the other data in the chart.
Classification
- data
Attestation
- English definition: Brinton, Graphic Presentation, 1939↗
Sources (25)
70 occurrences in the corpus; indexed by 3 books
Show the 25 sources
- Atlas of knowledge: anyone can map
- Ault, Nam Liao & Musolino, Principles of Data Science, OpenStax, 2025
- Brinton, Graphic Presentation, 1939↗
- Cartography: thematic map design
- Ciccione & Dehaene, The Neural Bases of Graphical Perception: A Novel Instance of Cultural Recycling?, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 2026↗
- Cook & Laa, Interactively Exploring High-Dimensional Data and Models in R, Chapman & Hall/CRC, 2026
- Data visualization handbook
- Data visualization: a practical introduction
- Effective data storytelling: how to drive change with data, narrative, and visuals
- Effective data visualization: the right chart for the right data
- Exploratory Data Analysis: Descriptive Analysis, Visualization, and Dashboard Design (w...
- Graphic presentation
- How maps work: representation, visualization, and design
- Information Graphics: A Comprehensive Illustrated Reference
- Interactive data visualization: foundations, techniques, and applications
- LibreTexts Statistics, textbook chapters on charts
- More Practical Charts
- The elements of graphing data
- The grammar of graphics
- The Oxford Handbook of Empirical Aesthetics
- The Truthful Art: Data, Charts, and Maps for Communication
- Thematic Cartography and Geovisualization
- Visualization Analysis and Design
- Visualization of Time-Oriented Data
- Wilke, Fundamentals of Data Visualization, O'Reilly, 2019
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ReferenceTaudière Adrien. 2026. independent variable. In Visualization Vocabulary, version 1.0.0. IdEst. https://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en-only/term/independent-variable.html
BibTeX
@incollection{taudiere2026-independent-variable,
author = {Taudière, Adrien},
title = {independent variable},
booktitle = {Visualization Vocabulary},
year = {2026},
version = {1.0.0},
publisher = {IdEst},
url = {https://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en-only/term/independent-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.