encoding
channel
also: visual channelGraphical attribute of a mark that encodes a value.
canal
aussi : canal visuelAttribut graphique modulant une marque pour coder une valeur.
Classification
- encoding
Attestation
- French term: Munzner, Visualization Analysis and Design, 2014
- English definition: Data Visualisation Guide, data.europa.eu
Sources (83)
691 occurrences in the corpus; indexed by 3 books
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- 100 diagrams that changed the world: from the earliest cave paintings to the innovation...
- A field guide to digital color
- analysisfunction.civilservice.gov.uk
- Atlas of knowledge: anyone can map
- Ault, Nam Liao & Musolino, Principles of Data Science, OpenStax, 2025
- Beautiful evidence
- Bremer & Barone, Chart, CRC Press, 2025
- Brilliant Maps for Curious Minds: 100 New Ways to See the World (Maps for Curious Minds)
- Building Science Graphics: An Illustrated Guide to Communicating Science through Diagra...
- Cartographies of Time
- Cartography: thematic map design
- Ciccione & Dehaene, The Neural Bases of Graphical Perception: A Novel Instance of Cultural Recycling?, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 2026↗
- Ciccione, « The Perception and Understanding of Patterns and Graphics », colloque Seeing the Mind, Educating the Brain, Collège de France, 2025↗
- Computational statistics in data science
- Data Feminism
- Data fluency: empowering your organization with effective data communication
- Data sketches
- Data story: explain data and inspire action through story
- Data Visualisation Guide, data.europa.eu
- Data visualisation: a handbook for data driven design
- Data visualization handbook
- Data visualization: a practical introduction
- Data-driven storytelling
- dataphys.org
- Dehaene, “The Perception of Graphics: A New Instance of Neuronal Recycling”, lecture course at the Collège de France, 2025 (in French)↗
- 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
- gka.github.io
- 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
- jfly.uni-koeln.de
- L’Atlas Molière
- La graphique et le traitement graphique de l'information
- Larmarange et al., analyse-R: introduction to survey analysis with R
- LibreTexts Statistics, textbook chapters on charts
- Living in data: a citizen's guide to a better information
- Making and Breaking the Grid, Third Edition
- Making numbers count: the art and science of communicating numbers
- Milestones in the history of thematic cartography, statistical graphics, and data visua...
- Munzner, Visualization Analysis and Design, 2014
- Open Visualization Academy, courses and newsletter (Cairo et al.)
- PBIL biostatistics notes (Chessel, Dufour, Thioulouse et al., Lyon 1)
- PLOS, figure guidelines↗
- Progressive Data Analysis: Roadmap and Research Agenda
- Questions in Dataviz: A Design-Driven Process for Data Visualisation
- Semiologie graphique: les diagrammes, les réseaux, les cartes.
- Semiology of graphics: diagrams, networks, maps
- Show me the numbers: designing tables and graphs to enlighten
- sronpersonalpages.nl
- Storytelling with data: let's practice!
- The art of insight: how great visualization designers think
- The big book of dashboards: visualizing your data using real-world business scenarios
- 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 infographic history of the world
- 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
- Thematic Cartography and Geovisualization
- utilitR, collaborative R documentation (Insee)
- visionscarto.net↗
- Visual complexity: mapping patterns of information
- Visual strategies for biological data
- Visualization Analysis and Design
- Visualization of Time-Oriented Data
- Wickham, Navarro & Pedersen, ggplot2: Elegant Graphics for Data Analysis, 3rd ed. online↗
Cite this entry
Stable addresshttps://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en/term/channel.html
ReferenceTaudière Adrien. 2026. channel. In Visualization Vocabulary, version 1.0.0. IdEst. https://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en/term/channel.html
BibTeX
@incollection{taudiere2026-channel,
author = {Taudière, Adrien},
title = {channel},
booktitle = {Visualization Vocabulary},
year = {2026},
version = {1.0.0},
publisher = {IdEst},
url = {https://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en/term/channel.html},
note = {CC0 1.0}
}Page created on 2026-10-13. Text last changed on 2026-10-13. Numbers computed on 2026-10-22.