critique
apophenia
also: patternicityPerception of structure in purely random data.
apophénie
Perception de structures dans des données purement aléatoires.
Classification
- critique
Attestation
- French term: French Wikipedia↗
Sources (7)
17 occurrences in the corpus; indexed by 3 books
- French Wikipedia↗
- Info we trust: how to inspire the world with data
- Progressive Data Analysis: Roadmap and Research Agenda
- The book of circles: visualizing spheres of knowledge
- The Truthful Art: Data, Charts, and Maps for Communication
- Visual complexity: mapping patterns of information
- Wikipedia in English↗
Cite this entry
Stable addresshttps://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en/term/apophenia.html
ReferenceTaudière Adrien. 2026. apophenia. In Visualization Vocabulary, version 1.0.0. IdEst. https://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en/term/apophenia.html
BibTeX
@incollection{taudiere2026-apophenia,
author = {Taudière, Adrien},
title = {apophenia},
booktitle = {Visualization Vocabulary},
year = {2026},
version = {1.0.0},
publisher = {IdEst},
url = {https://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en/term/apophenia.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.