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logarithmic scale
Scale where a constant distance means a constant ratio.
Classification
- encoding
Attestation and synonyms
- English definition: Brinton, Graphic Presentation, 1939↗
- ratio chart; Brinton, Graphic Presentation, 1939↗
- rate-of-change chart; Brinton, Graphic Presentation, 1939↗
Sources (31)
134 occurrences in the corpus; indexed by 8 books
Show the 31 sources
- Atlas of knowledge: anyone can map
- Brinton, Graphic Presentation, 1939↗
- Cartography: thematic map design
- Ciccione, Sablé-Meyer & Dehaene, Analyzing the Misperception of Exponential Growth in Graphs, Cognition, 2022↗
- Data points: visualization that means something
- Data Visualisation Guide, data.europa.eu
- Data visualisation: a handbook for data driven design
- Data visualization handbook
- Design for information: an introduction to the histories, theories, and best practices ...
- Effective data storytelling: how to drive change with data, narrative, and visuals
- Envisioning information
- gka.github.io
- Graphic presentation
- How charts lie: getting smarter about visual information
- Information graphics
- 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...
- Practical charts: the essential guide to creating clear, compelling charts for reports ...
- Semiology of graphics: diagrams, networks, maps
- Show me the numbers: designing tables and graphs to enlighten
- The book of circles: visualizing spheres of knowledge
- The elements of graphing data
- The grammar of graphics
- The infographic history of the world
- The Truthful Art: Data, Charts, and Maps for Communication
- The Wall Street journal guide to information graphics: the dos and don'ts of presenting...
- Visualizing Uncertainty About the Future
- Wikipedia — Data and information visualization
- Wikipedia in English↗
- Wilke, Fundamentals of Data Visualization, O'Reilly, 2019
Cite this entry
Stable addresshttps://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en-only/term/log-scale.html
ReferenceTaudière Adrien. 2026. logarithmic scale. In Visualization Vocabulary, version 1.0.0. IdEst. https://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en-only/term/log-scale.html
BibTeX
@incollection{taudiere2026-log-scale,
author = {Taudière, Adrien},
title = {logarithmic scale},
booktitle = {Visualization Vocabulary},
year = {2026},
version = {1.0.0},
publisher = {IdEst},
url = {https://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en-only/term/log-scale.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.