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skewness
Imbalance of a distribution around its center.
Classification
- statistics
Attestation
- English definition: Semiology of graphics: diagrams, networks, maps
Sources (16)
133 occurrences in the corpus; indexed by 2 books
Show the 16 sources
- Applied Multivariate Statistics in R
- Atlas of knowledge: anyone can map
- Ault, Nam Liao & Musolino, Principles of Data Science, OpenStax, 2025
- Cartography: thematic map design
- Computational statistics in data science
- Cook & Laa, Interactively Exploring High-Dimensional Data and Models in R, Chapman & Hall/CRC, 2026
- Exploratory Data Analysis: Descriptive Analysis, Visualization, and Dashboard Design (w...
- Graphical Perception: Theory, Experimentation, and Application to the Development of Gr...
- LibreTexts Statistics, textbook chapters on charts
- Semiology of graphics: diagrams, networks, maps
- The art of insight: how great visualization designers think
- The grammar of graphics
- The Oxford Handbook of Empirical Aesthetics
- Visualize This
- Wickham, Çetinkaya-Rundel & Grolemund, R for Data Science, 2nd ed., 2023
- Wikipedia in English↗
Cite this entry
Stable addresshttps://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en-only/term/skewness.html
ReferenceTaudière Adrien. 2026. skewness. In Visualization Vocabulary, version 1.0.0. IdEst. https://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en-only/term/skewness.html
BibTeX
@incollection{taudiere2026-skewness,
author = {Taudière, Adrien},
title = {skewness},
booktitle = {Visualization Vocabulary},
year = {2026},
version = {1.0.0},
publisher = {IdEst},
url = {https://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en-only/term/skewness.html},
note = {CC0 1.0}
}Page created on 2026-10-13. Text last changed on 2026-11-10. Numbers computed on 2026-10-22.