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reference line
also: threshold lineLine marking a notable value such as a threshold or a mean.
Classification
- encoding
Attestation
- English definition: The elements of graphing data
Sources (19)
75 occurrences in the corpus; indexed by 5 books
Show the 19 sources
- app.flourish.studio
- Beautiful evidence
- Cartography: thematic map design
- Data Feminism
- Data visualisation: a handbook for data driven design
- Data visualization handbook
- Effective data storytelling: how to drive change with data, narrative, and visuals
- Information Graphics: A Comprehensive Illustrated Reference
- LibreTexts Statistics, textbook chapters on charts
- royal-statistical-society.github.io
- Show me the numbers: designing tables and graphs to enlighten
- The big book of dashboards: visualizing your data using real-world business scenarios
- The elements of graphing data
- The grammar of graphics
- Thematic Cartography and Geovisualization
- Visualize This
- Visualizing with text
- Wickham, Navarro & Pedersen, ggplot2: Elegant Graphics for Data Analysis, 3rd ed. online↗
- Wilke, Fundamentals of Data Visualization, O'Reilly, 2019
Cite this entry
Stable addresshttps://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en-only/term/reference-line.html
ReferenceTaudière Adrien. 2026. reference line. In Visualization Vocabulary, version 1.0.0. IdEst. https://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en-only/term/reference-line.html
BibTeX
@incollection{taudiere2026-reference-line,
author = {Taudière, Adrien},
title = {reference line},
booktitle = {Visualization Vocabulary},
year = {2026},
version = {1.0.0},
publisher = {IdEst},
url = {https://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en-only/term/reference-line.html},
note = {CC0 1.0}
}Page created on 2026-10-13. Text last changed on 2026-11-10. Images last changed on 2026-10-13. Numbers computed on 2026-10-22.