statistics
percentile
Value below which a given percentage of observations fall.
Classification
- statistics
Attestation
- English definition: The elements of graphing data
Sources (28)
217 occurrences in the corpus; indexed by 3 books
Show the 28 sources
- Atlas of knowledge: anyone can map
- Ault, Nam Liao & Musolino, Principles of Data Science, OpenStax, 2025
- Better data visualizations: a guide for scholars, researchers, and wonks
- Cartography: thematic map design
- Data fluency: empowering your organization with effective data communication
- Data points: visualization that means something
- Data visualisation: a handbook for data driven design
- Data visualization: a practical introduction
- datawrapper.de↗
- Envisioning information
- Exploratory Data Analysis: Descriptive Analysis, Visualization, and Dashboard Design (w...
- How to lie with statistics
- Info we trust: how to inspire the world with data
- Information Graphics: A Comprehensive Illustrated Reference
- LibreTexts Statistics, textbook chapters on charts
- Open Visualization Academy, courses and newsletter (Cairo et al.)
- Show me the numbers: designing tables and graphs to enlighten
- Storytelling with data: let's practice!
- The big book of dashboards: visualizing your data using real-world business scenarios
- The elements of graphing data
- The infographic history of the world
- The Truthful Art: Data, Charts, and Maps for Communication
- Thematic Cartography and Geovisualization
- Visualize This
- Wickham, Çetinkaya-Rundel & Grolemund, R for Data Science, 2nd ed., 2023
- 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/percentile.html
ReferenceTaudière Adrien. 2026. percentile. In Visualization Vocabulary, version 1.0.0. IdEst. https://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en-only/term/percentile.html
BibTeX
@incollection{taudiere2026-percentile,
author = {Taudière, Adrien},
title = {percentile},
booktitle = {Visualization Vocabulary},
year = {2026},
version = {1.0.0},
publisher = {IdEst},
url = {https://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en-only/term/percentile.html},
note = {CC0 1.0}
}Page created on 2026-10-13. Text last changed on 2026-11-10. Numbers computed on 2026-10-22.