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quantitative variable
Visual variable allowing a numeric ratio to be read between two marks.
Classification
- encoding
Attestation
- English definition: Semiology of graphics: diagrams, networks, maps
Sources (20)
46 occurrences in the corpus; indexed by 1 book
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- Data visualisation: a handbook for data driven design
- Data visualization handbook
- data-to-viz.com
- 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
- Handling and mapping geographic information
- How maps work: representation, visualization, and design
- Information Graphics: A Comprehensive Illustrated Reference
- LibreTexts Statistics, textbook chapters on charts
- Milestones in the history of thematic cartography, statistical graphics, and data visua...
- Open Visualization Academy, courses and newsletter (Cairo et al.)
- Semiology of graphics: diagrams, networks, maps
- Show me the numbers: designing tables and graphs to enlighten
- StatsLearn, “Graphs and displays” glossary↗
- The elements of graphing data
- Visualization of Time-Oriented Data
- 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/quantitative-variable.html
ReferenceTaudière Adrien. 2026. quantitative variable. In Visualization Vocabulary, version 1.0.0. IdEst. https://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en-only/term/quantitative-variable.html
BibTeX
@incollection{taudiere2026-quantitative-variable,
author = {Taudière, Adrien},
title = {quantitative variable},
booktitle = {Visualization Vocabulary},
year = {2026},
version = {1.0.0},
publisher = {IdEst},
url = {https://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en-only/term/quantitative-variable.html},
note = {CC0 1.0}
}Page created on 2026-10-13. Text last changed on 2026-11-10. Numbers computed on 2026-10-22.