encoding
aesthetic
Mapping of a variable to a graphical attribute in the grammar of graphics.
esthétique
aussi : attribut esthétiqueCorrespondance entre une variable et un attribut graphique en grammaire des graphiques.
Sens ggplot2 à distinguer du sens usuel de « esthétique ».
Classification
- encoding
Attestation
- French term: Wilkinson, The Grammar of Graphics, 2nd ed., 2005
- English definition: ggplot2 reference
Sources (85)
3888 occurrences in the corpus; indexed by 11 books
Show the 85 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
- blog.datawrapper.de↗
- Bremer & Barone, Chart, CRC Press, 2025
- Building Science Graphics: An Illustrated Guide to Communicating Science through Diagra...
- buildingsciencegraphics.com
- Cartographies of Time
- Cartography: thematic map design
- Data Feminism
- Data fluency: empowering your organization with effective data communication
- Data points: visualization that means something
- Data sketches
- Data Visualisation Guide, data.europa.eu
- Data visualisation: a handbook for data driven design
- Data visualization: a practical introduction
- Data-driven storytelling
- dataphys.org
- Dear data
- Design for information: an introduction to the histories, theories, and best practices ...
- Effective data storytelling: how to drive change with data, narrative, and visuals
- Envisioning information
- Exploratory Data Analysis: Descriptive Analysis, Visualization, and Dashboard Design (w...
- Fundamentals of computer graphics
- ggplot2 reference
- Graphics for learning: proven guidelines for planning, designing, and evaluating visual...
- Grosjean & Engels, Science des données biologiques I-III (University of Mons)
- 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
- L’Atlas Molière
- La graphique et le traitement graphique de l'information
- Lagarenne, Minodier & Samson, « Comment présenter nos données pour mieux communiquer ? La datavisualisation : synthèse et simplicité », Courrier des statistiques n° 10 (Insee), 2023↗
- Larmarange et al., analyse-R: introduction to survey analysis with R
- Larmarange, guide-R: analysing survey data with R
- Les fondamentaux de la visualisation de données
- LibreTexts Statistics, textbook chapters on charts
- Living in data: a citizen's guide to a better information
- Magrit user manual, French version (UAR RIATE, CNRS)
- Making and Breaking the Grid, Third Edition
- Manuel de datavisualisation - 2e éd, vol. 2
- More Practical Charts
- Open Visualization Academy, courses and newsletter (Cairo et al.)
- PBIL biostatistics notes (Chessel, Dufour, Thioulouse et al., Lyon 1)
- PLOS, figure guidelines↗
- QCBS R Workshop Series, French version (Quebec Centre for Biodiversity Science)
- Questions in Dataviz: A Design-Driven Process for Data Visualisation
- Rakotomalala, statistics course notes (Université Lyon 2)
- Seeing with fresh eyes: meaning, space, data, truth
- Semiologie graphique: les diagrammes, les réseaux, les cartes.
- 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 book of circles: visualizing spheres of knowledge
- 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 Minard System: The Complete Statistical Graphics of Charles-Joseph Minard
- 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
- visionscarto.net↗
- Visual complexity: mapping patterns of information
- Visual explanations: images and quantities, evidence and narrative
- Visual strategies for biological data
- Visualization of Time-Oriented Data
- Visualize This
- Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1, authorized French translation (W3C)
- Wickham, Çetinkaya-Rundel & Grolemund, R for Data Science, 2nd ed., 2023
- Wickham, Navarro & Pedersen, ggplot2: Elegant Graphics for Data Analysis, 3rd ed. online↗
- wiki.wordsoftype.com
- Wikipedia — Data and information visualization
- Wikipedia in English↗ fr
- Wilke, Fundamentals of Data Visualization, O'Reilly, 2019
- Wilkinson, The Grammar of Graphics, 2nd ed., 2005
Cite this entry
Stable addresshttps://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en/term/aesthetic.html
ReferenceTaudière Adrien. 2026. aesthetic. In Visualization Vocabulary, version 1.0.0. IdEst. https://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en/term/aesthetic.html
BibTeX
@incollection{taudiere2026-aesthetic,
author = {Taudière, Adrien},
title = {aesthetic},
booktitle = {Visualization Vocabulary},
year = {2026},
version = {1.0.0},
publisher = {IdEst},
url = {https://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en/term/aesthetic.html},
note = {CC0 1.0}
}Page created on 2026-10-13. Text last changed on 2026-10-13. Images last changed on 2026-10-13. Numbers computed on 2026-10-22.