perception
similarity
also: similarity principleSimilar elements are perceived as a group.
Classification
- perception
Attestation
- English definition: Semiology of graphics: diagrams, networks, maps
Sources (68)
751 occurrences in the corpus; indexed by 13 books
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- 100 diagrams that changed the world: from the earliest cave paintings to the innovation...
- 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
- blog.datawrapper.de↗
- Building Science Graphics: An Illustrated Guide to Communicating Science through Diagra...
- Cartography: thematic map design
- Ciccione & Dehaene, The Neural Bases of Graphical Perception: A Novel Instance of Cultural Recycling?, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 2026↗
- Ciccione et al., Can Non-Human Primates Extract the Linear Trend from a Noisy Scatterplot?, iScience, 2025↗
- Ciccione et al., Trend Judgment as a Perceptual Building Block of Graphicacy and Mathematics, Scientific Reports, 2023↗
- Computational statistics in data science
- Cook & Laa, Interactively Exploring High-Dimensional Data and Models in R, Chapman & Hall/CRC, 2026
- Data Feminism
- Data fluency: empowering your organization with effective data communication
- Data sketches
- Data story: explain data and inspire action through story
- Data visualisation: a handbook for data driven design
- Data visualization handbook
- Data visualization literacy: Definitions, conceptual frameworks, exercises, and assessm...
- Data visualization: a practical introduction
- dataphys.org
- Design for information: an introduction to the histories, theories, and best practices ...
- Effective data storytelling: how to drive change with data, narrative, and visuals
- Elavsky, Chartability: POUR-CAF accessibility heuristics
- Envisioning information
- Exploratory Data Analysis: Descriptive Analysis, Visualization, and Dashboard Design (w...
- Friendly & Wainer, A History of Data Visualization and Graphic Communication, Harvard University Press, 2021
- Fundamentals of computer graphics
- Graphic presentation
- 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
- Interactive data visualization: foundations, techniques, and applications
- LibreTexts Statistics, textbook chapters on charts
- Making and Breaking the Grid, Third Edition
- Open Visualization Academy, courses and newsletter (Cairo et al.)
- Progressive Data Analysis: Roadmap and Research Agenda
- pudding.cool↗
- Questions in Dataviz: A Design-Driven Process for Data Visualisation
- Seeing with fresh eyes: meaning, space, data, truth
- Semiology of graphics: diagrams, networks, maps
- Show me the numbers: designing tables and graphs to enlighten
- Stop Misusing t-SNE and UMAP for Visual Analytics
- Storytelling with data: let's practice!
- The art of insight: how great visualization designers think
- The book of circles: visualizing spheres of knowledge
- The book of trees: visualizing branches of knowledge
- The elements of graphing data
- The elements of typographic style
- The functional art: an introduction to information graphics and visualization
- The golden age of data visualization: how did we get here?
- The grammar of graphics
- The Oxford Handbook of Empirical Aesthetics
- Thematic Cartography and Geovisualization
- UMATO: Bridging Local and Global Structures for Reliable Visual Analytics With Dimensio...
- Visual complexity: mapping patterns of information
- Visual strategies for biological data
- Visualization Analysis and Design
- Visualization of Time-Oriented Data
- Visualizing with text
- wiki.wordsoftype.com
- Wilke, Fundamentals of Data Visualization, O'Reilly, 2019
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ReferenceTaudière Adrien. 2026. similarity. In Visualization Vocabulary, version 1.0.0. IdEst. https://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en-only/term/similarity.html
BibTeX
@incollection{taudiere2026-similarity,
author = {Taudière, Adrien},
title = {similarity},
booktitle = {Visualization Vocabulary},
year = {2026},
version = {1.0.0},
publisher = {IdEst},
url = {https://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en-only/term/similarity.html},
note = {CC0 1.0}
}Page created on 2026-10-13. Text last changed on 2026-11-10. Numbers computed on 2026-10-22.