data
nominal scale
Measurement by plain unordered categories.
Classification
- data
Sources (10)
31 occurrences in the corpus; indexed by 4 books
- Atlas of knowledge: anyone can map
- Better data visualizations: a guide for scholars, researchers, and wonks
- Cartography: thematic map design
- Data visualization handbook
- Design for information: an introduction to the histories, theories, and best practices ...
- Information Graphics: A Comprehensive Illustrated Reference
- LibreTexts Statistics, textbook chapters on charts
- The grammar of graphics
- The Truthful Art: Data, Charts, and Maps for Communication
- Wikipedia in English↗
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Stable addresshttps://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en-only/term/nominal-scale.html
ReferenceTaudière Adrien. 2026. nominal scale. In Visualization Vocabulary, version 1.0.0. IdEst. https://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en-only/term/nominal-scale.html
BibTeX
@incollection{taudiere2026-nominal-scale,
author = {Taudière, Adrien},
title = {nominal scale},
booktitle = {Visualization Vocabulary},
year = {2026},
version = {1.0.0},
publisher = {IdEst},
url = {https://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en-only/term/nominal-scale.html},
note = {CC0 1.0}
}Page created on 2026-10-13. Text last changed on 2026-11-12. Images last changed on 2026-11-12. Numbers computed on 2026-10-22.