figure
schematic
also: schematic diagramSimplified depiction of an object or process that encodes no data.
Classification
- figure
- non-chart figures
Variants
- block diagramblocks joined by lines
Sources (51)
317 occurrences in the corpus; indexed by 2 books
Show the 51 sources
- 100 diagrams that changed the world: from the earliest cave paintings to the innovation...
- A field guide to digital color
- Applied Multivariate Statistics in R
- Atlas of knowledge: anyone can map
- Ault, Nam Liao & Musolino, Principles of Data Science, OpenStax, 2025
- Beautiful evidence
- Better data visualizations: a guide for scholars, researchers, and wonks
- Bremer & Barone, Chart, CRC Press, 2025
- Building Science Graphics: An Illustrated Guide to Communicating Science through Diagra...
- Cartographies of Time
- Computational statistics in data science
- Data Visualisation Guide, data.europa.eu
- Data visualization handbook
- Data visualization: a practical introduction
- Data-driven storytelling
- Dear data
- Design for information: an introduction to the histories, theories, and best practices ...
- Envisioning information
- Friendly & Wainer, A History of Data Visualization and Graphic Communication, Harvard University Press, 2021
- Graphics for learning: proven guidelines for planning, designing, and evaluating visual...
- Handling and mapping geographic information
- How maps work: representation, visualization, and design
- Impossible to ignore: creating memorable content to influence decisions
- Info we trust: how to inspire the world with data
- Information graphics
- Information Graphics: A Comprehensive Illustrated Reference
- Information theory tools for visualization
- Living in data: a citizen's guide to a better information
- Making and Breaking the Grid, Third Edition
- Milestones in the history of thematic cartography, statistical graphics, and data visua...
- Nature, formatting guide↗
- Questions in Dataviz: A Design-Driven Process for Data Visualisation
- The book of circles: visualizing spheres of knowledge
- The book of trees: visualizing branches of knowledge
- The golden age of data visualization: how did we get here?
- The grammar of graphics
- The Oxford Handbook of Empirical Aesthetics
- The Truthful Art: Data, Charts, and Maps for Communication
- The visual display of quantitative information
- Thematic Cartography and Geovisualization
- Visual complexity: mapping patterns of information
- Visual strategies for biological data
- Visualization Analysis and Design
- Visualization of Time-Oriented Data
- Visualize This
- Visualizing with text
- Wainer & Friendly, On the Origins of Data Visualization, 2022
- Wickham, Navarro & Pedersen, ggplot2: Elegant Graphics for Data Analysis, 3rd ed. online↗
- 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/schematic.html
ReferenceTaudière Adrien. 2026. schematic. In Visualization Vocabulary, version 1.0.0. IdEst. https://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en-only/term/schematic.html
BibTeX
@incollection{taudiere2026-schematic,
author = {Taudière, Adrien},
title = {schematic},
booktitle = {Visualization Vocabulary},
year = {2026},
version = {1.0.0},
publisher = {IdEst},
url = {https://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en-only/term/schematic.html},
note = {CC0 1.0}
}Page created on 2026-10-13. Text last changed on 2026-11-09. Numbers computed on 2026-10-22.