Diagram: proportional symbol map — Drawing: Adrien Taudière (CC0)

Explanatory diagram: proportional symbol map — Drawing: Adrien Taudière (CC0)

map

proportional symbol map

also: graduated symbol map, ordered proportional symbol

Symbols sized by an absolute quantity at a location.

Classification

map
maps › symbol maps
spatial; Financial Times Visual Vocabulary

Scientific literature

OpenAlex: 106 papers since 1987, 34% in the last five years; mostly in Social Sciences, Computer Science, Medicine; Wikidata

Seminal references

first known use (1858) Minard (1858). Carte en cercles divisés des viandes de boucherie envoyées au marché de Paris (descriptive title, after Friendly & Wainer); Friendly & Wainer 2021, Friendly & Denis 2001

R packages

R mapsf::mf_map(); GitHub 249 stars; last commit 2026-10

Sources (14)

109 occurrences in the corpus; indexed by 8 books

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Cite this entry

Stable addresshttps://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en-only/term/proportional-symbol-map.html

ReferenceTaudière Adrien. 2026. proportional symbol map. In Visualization Vocabulary, version 1.0.0. IdEst. https://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en-only/term/proportional-symbol-map.html

BibTeX

@incollection{taudiere2026-proportional-symbol-map,
  author    = {Taudière, Adrien},
  title     = {proportional symbol map},
  booktitle = {Visualization Vocabulary},
  year      = {2026},
  version   = {1.0.0},
  publisher = {IdEst},
  url       = {https://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en-only/term/proportional-symbol-map.html},
  note      = {CC0 1.0}
}

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