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natural breaks
also: Jenks natural breaksClassification placing breaks so as to minimize variance within classes.
Classification
- map
- the name evokes: eponym
Attestation
- English definition: datawrapper.de↗
Sources (10)
57 occurrences in the corpus; indexed by 3 books
- Better data visualizations: a guide for scholars, researchers, and wonks
- Cartography: thematic map design
- Data points: visualization that means something
- Data Visualisation Guide, data.europa.eu
- Data visualization handbook
- datawrapper.de↗
- Information Graphics: A Comprehensive Illustrated Reference
- Open Visualization Academy, courses and newsletter (Cairo et al.)
- The Truthful Art: Data, Charts, and Maps for Communication
- Thematic Cartography and Geovisualization
Cite this entry
Stable addresshttps://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en-only/term/natural-breaks.html
ReferenceTaudière Adrien. 2026. natural breaks. In Visualization Vocabulary, version 1.0.0. IdEst. https://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en-only/term/natural-breaks.html
BibTeX
@incollection{taudiere2026-natural-breaks,
author = {Taudière, Adrien},
title = {natural breaks},
booktitle = {Visualization Vocabulary},
year = {2026},
version = {1.0.0},
publisher = {IdEst},
url = {https://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en-only/term/natural-breaks.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.