process
simplification
Cutting the number of elements until the question asked finds its answer.
Classification
- process
Attestation
- English definition: Semiology of graphics: diagrams, networks, maps
Sources (34)
258 occurrences in the corpus; indexed by 5 books
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- A field guide to digital color
- Cartographies of Time
- Cartography: thematic map design
- Computational statistics in data science
- Cook & Laa, Interactively Exploring High-Dimensional Data and Models in R, Chapman & Hall/CRC, 2026
- Data points: visualization that means something
- Data visualisation: a handbook for data driven design
- Data visualization handbook
- dataphys.org
- datawrapper.de↗
- Design for information: an introduction to the histories, theories, and best practices ...
- Envisioning information
- Fundamentals of computer graphics
- Handling and mapping geographic information
- How charts lie: getting smarter about visual information
- How maps work: representation, visualization, and design
- Info we trust: how to inspire the world with data
- Information theory tools for visualization
- Living in data: a citizen's guide to a better information
- Making numbers count: the art and science of communicating numbers
- Open Visualization Academy, courses and newsletter (Cairo et al.)
- Progressive Data Analysis: Roadmap and Research Agenda
- Seeing with fresh eyes: meaning, space, data, truth
- Semiology of graphics: diagrams, networks, maps
- Show me the numbers: designing tables and graphs to enlighten
- The art of insight: how great visualization designers think
- The functional art: an introduction to information graphics and visualization
- The golden age of data visualization: how did we get here?
- The Wall Street journal guide to information graphics: the dos and don'ts of presenting...
- Thematic Cartography and Geovisualization
- Visual complexity: mapping patterns of information
- Visual strategies for biological data
- Visualization Analysis and Design
- Visualize This
Cite this entry
Stable addresshttps://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en-only/term/simplification.html
ReferenceTaudière Adrien. 2026. simplification. In Visualization Vocabulary, version 1.0.0. IdEst. https://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en-only/term/simplification.html
BibTeX
@incollection{taudiere2026-simplification,
author = {Taudière, Adrien},
title = {simplification},
booktitle = {Visualization Vocabulary},
year = {2026},
version = {1.0.0},
publisher = {IdEst},
url = {https://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en-only/term/simplification.html},
note = {CC0 1.0}
}Page created on 2026-10-13. Text last changed on 2026-11-10. Numbers computed on 2026-10-22.