chart
network
Construction in which “the correspondences in the plane can be established between all the elements of one and the same component” (Bertin, translated).
Classification
- chart
Attestation
- English definition: Semiology of graphics: diagrams, networks, maps
R code of the ggplot2 example
library(ggplot2)
library(igraph)
library(ggraph)
## One component, the club's members, set in correspondence with itself:
## a line joins two members who met outside the club.
data("karate", package = "igraphdata")
club <- upgrade_graph(karate)
V(club)$faction <- ifelse(V(club)$Faction == 1, "Mr Hi's faction", "John A's faction")
set.seed(3)
p <- ggraph(club, layout = "stress") +
geom_edge_link(colour = "#a6a6a6", width = 0.3) +
geom_node_point(aes(colour = faction), size = 2.4) +
scale_colour_manual(values = unname(lex_colors[c("plum", "blue")]), name = NULL) +
labs(title = "The 34 members of a karate club split into two factions",
subtitle = "A line joins two members who met outside the club, 1970–1972",
caption = "Data: Zachary 1977, via the igraphdata R package") +
theme_lex_viz(grid = "", arrows = "") +
theme(axis.text = element_blank(), axis.title = element_blank())Sources (94)
2270 occurrences in the corpus; indexed by 7 books
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- 100 diagrams that changed the world: from the earliest cave paintings to the innovation...
- A field guide to digital color
- app.flourish.studio
- Atlas of knowledge: anyone can map
- Ault, Nam Liao & Musolino, Principles of Data Science, OpenStax, 2025
- Beautiful evidence
- Better data visualizations: a guide for scholars, researchers, and wonks
- Bremer & Barone, Chart, CRC Press, 2025
- Brilliant Maps for Curious Minds: 100 New Ways to See the World (Maps for Curious Minds)
- Building Science Graphics: An Illustrated Guide to Communicating Science through Diagra...
- buildingsciencegraphics.com
- Cartographies of Time
- 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., Can Non-Human Primates Extract the Linear Trend from a Noisy Scatterplot?, iScience, 2025↗
- Ciccione, « The Perception and Understanding of Patterns and Graphics », colloque Seeing the Mind, Educating the Brain, Collège de France, 2025↗
- Computational statistics in data science
- Cook & Laa, Interactively Exploring High-Dimensional Data and Models in R, Chapman & Hall/CRC, 2026
- Data Feminism
- Data fluency: empowering your organization with effective data communication
- Data points: visualization that means something
- Data sketches
- Data Visualisation Guide, data.europa.eu
- Data visualisation: a handbook for data driven design
- Data visualization handbook
- Data visualization literacy: Definitions, conceptual frameworks, exercises, and assessm...
- Data visualization: a practical introduction
- Data Viz Project
- Data-driven storytelling
- data-to-viz.com
- dataphys.org
- datavizcatalogue.com
- datavizproject.com
- datawrapper.de↗
- Design for information: an introduction to the histories, theories, and best practices ...
- Effective data storytelling: how to drive change with data, narrative, and visuals
- Effective data visualization: the right chart for the right data
- Envisioning information
- Exploratory Data Analysis: Descriptive Analysis, Visualization, and Dashboard Design (w...
- Friendly & Wainer, A History of Data Visualization and Graphic Communication, Harvard University Press, 2021
- From data to viz
- Fundamentals of computer graphics
- Graphic presentation
- Graphics for learning: proven guidelines for planning, designing, and evaluating visual...
- Handling and mapping geographic information
- How charts lie: getting smarter about visual information
- How maps work: representation, visualization, and design
- Impossible to ignore: creating memorable content to influence decisions
- Info we trust: how to inspire the world with data
- Information graphics
- Information Graphics: A Comprehensive Illustrated Reference
- Information theory tools for visualization
- Interactive data visualization: foundations, techniques, and applications
- jpswalsh.github.io↗
- Living in data: a citizen's guide to a better information
- Making and Breaking the Grid, Third Edition
- Making numbers count: the art and science of communicating numbers
- Milestones in the history of thematic cartography, statistical graphics, and data visua...
- Open Visualization Academy, courses and newsletter (Cairo et al.)
- Practical charts: the essential guide to creating clear, compelling charts for reports ...
- Progressive Data Analysis: Roadmap and Research Agenda
- python-graph-gallery.com
- Questions in Dataviz: A Design-Driven Process for Data Visualisation
- Seeing with fresh eyes: meaning, space, data, truth
- Semiology of graphics: diagrams, networks, maps
- Show me the numbers: designing tables and graphs to enlighten
- Stop Misusing t-SNE and UMAP for Visual Analytics
- The art of insight: how great visualization designers think
- The big book of dashboards: visualizing your data using real-world business scenarios
- The book of circles: visualizing spheres of knowledge
- The book of trees: visualizing branches of knowledge
- The elements of typographic style
- The eyes have it: A task by data type taxonomy for information visualizations
- The functional art: an introduction to information graphics and visualization
- The golden age of data visualization: how did we get here?
- The grammar of graphics
- The infographic history of the world
- The Minard System: The Complete Statistical Graphics of Charles-Joseph Minard
- The Oxford Handbook of Empirical Aesthetics
- The Truthful Art: Data, Charts, and Maps for Communication
- The visual display of quantitative information
- Thematic Cartography and Geovisualization
- UMATO: Bridging Local and Global Structures for Reliable Visual Analytics With Dimensio...
- Visual complexity: mapping patterns of information
- Visual explanations: images and quantities, evidence and narrative
- Visual strategies for biological data
- Visualization Analysis and Design
- Visualization of Time-Oriented Data
- Visualize This
- Visualizing with text
- Wickham, Navarro & Pedersen, ggplot2: Elegant Graphics for Data Analysis, 3rd ed. online↗
- Wikipedia — Data and information visualization
- Wilke, Fundamentals of Data Visualization, O'Reilly, 2019
- xeno.graphics↗
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ReferenceTaudière Adrien. 2026. network. In Visualization Vocabulary, version 1.0.0. IdEst. https://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en-only/term/network.html
BibTeX
@incollection{taudiere2026-network,
author = {Taudière, Adrien},
title = {network},
booktitle = {Visualization Vocabulary},
year = {2026},
version = {1.0.0},
publisher = {IdEst},
url = {https://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en-only/term/network.html},
note = {CC0 1.0}
}Page created on 2026-10-13. Text last changed on 2026-11-10. Images last changed on 2026-11-12. Numbers computed on 2026-10-22.