chart
chart
also: graph, plotVisual representation of data through positioned marks and graphical attributes.
graphique
Représentation visuelle de données au moyen de marques positionnées et d'attributs graphiques.
Piège majeur : le français « graphique » recouvre à la fois chart, graph et graphic. En anglais graph tend vers les réseaux, chart vers les formes courantes, plot vers les tracés statistiques, mais l'usage les confond largement. Börner et al. 2019, après Harris 1999, distinguent chart (camembert) et graph (nuage de points).
Classification
- chart
Attestation
- French term: Lagnel, Manuel de datavisualisation, Dunod, 2021
- English definition: Kirk, Data Visualisation, 2nd ed., 2019
R code of the ggplot2 example
library(ggplot2)
library(HistData)
## Marks (points) placed by two positions, the parents' mean height and the
## child's height, with one attribute, colour, for the child's gender.
p <- ggplot(GaltonFamilies, aes(x = midparentHeight, y = childHeight, colour = gender)) +
geom_jitter(width = 0.15, height = 0.15, size = 0.9, alpha = 0.6) +
scale_colour_manual(values = unname(lex_colors[c("plum", "blue")]), name = NULL,
labels = c(female = "Daughters", male = "Sons")) +
scale_x_continuous(breaks = lex_break_breaks, expand = lex_break_expand) +
scale_y_continuous(breaks = lex_break_breaks, expand = lex_break_expand) +
labs(title = "Children of taller parents tend to be taller (r = 0.32)",
subtitle = "934 children of 205 families, 1880s",
x = "Parents' mean height (inches)", y = "Child's height (inches)",
caption = "Data: Galton 1886, via the HistData R package") +
theme_lex_viz(break_not_zero = "xy")Sources (146)
26170 occurrences in the corpus; indexed by 25 books
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- A field guide to digital color
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- Barnier, Introduction à R et au tidyverse
- Beautiful evidence
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- Better data visualizations: a guide for scholars, researchers, and wonks
- blog.datawrapper.de↗
- 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
- cedricscherer.com↗
- Ciccione et al., The Superiority of Graphics over Text in Long-Term Memory Retention, Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 2025↗
- Computational statistics in data science
- Data Feminism
- Data fluency: empowering your organization with effective data communication
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- 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 literacy: Definitions, conceptual frameworks, exercises, and assessm...
- Data visualization: a practical introduction
- Data Viz Project
- Data-driven storytelling
- data-to-viz.com
- data.europa.eu
- dataphys.org
- datavis.ca↗
- datavizcatalogue.com
- datavizindex.fr
- datavizproject.com
- datawrapper.de↗
- 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
- Effective data visualization: the right chart for the right data
- Elavsky, Chartability: POUR-CAF accessibility heuristics
- Envisioning information
- Exploratory Data Analysis: Descriptive Analysis, Visualization, and Dashboard Design (w...
- Focus+context display and navigation techniques for enhancing radial, space-filling hie...
- French Wikipedia↗
- French Wikipedia — Visualisation de données
- Friendly & Wainer, A History of Data Visualization and Graphic Communication, Harvard University Press, 2021
- From data to viz
- Fundamentals of computer graphics
- Giraud & Pecout, Géomatique et cartographie avec R
- git.apcacontrast.com
- Graphic presentation
- Graphical Perception: Theory, Experimentation, and Application to the Development of Gr...
- Graphics for learning: proven guidelines for planning, designing, and evaluating visual...
- Graphiques : vocabulaire, EBSI Montreal (after the GDT)↗
- Grosjean & Engels, Science des données biologiques I-III (University of Mons)
- Handling and mapping geographic information
- How charts lie: getting smarter about visual information
- How maps work: representation, visualization, and design
- How to lie with statistics
- 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
- Insee, Guide de sémiologie graphique, édition 2017↗
- Interactive data visualization: foundations, techniques, and applications
- Kirk, Data Visualisation, 2nd ed., 2019
- 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↗
- Lagnel, Manuel de datavisualisation, Dunod, 2021
- 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
- Lexique de la datavisualisation, Définitions Digital
- 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)
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- Making numbers count: the art and science of communicating numbers
- Manuel de datavisualisation - 2e éd, vol. 2
- Milestones in the history of thematic cartography, statistical graphics, and data visua...
- More Practical Charts
- Open Visualization Academy, courses and newsletter (Cairo et al.)
- Parallel sets: visual analysis of categorical data
- PBIL biostatistics notes (Chessel, Dufour, Thioulouse et al., Lyon 1)
- pinterest.fr↗
- Practical charts: the essential guide to creating clear, compelling charts for reports ...
- Progressive Data Analysis: Roadmap and Research Agenda
- pudding.cool↗
- python-graph-gallery.com
- QCBS R Workshop Series, French version (Quebec Centre for Biodiversity Science)
- Questions in Dataviz: A Design-Driven Process for Data Visualisation
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- RGAA, French accessibility framework: glossary, criteria and tests
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- 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
- StatsLearn, “Graphs and displays” glossary↗
- Stop Misusing t-SNE and UMAP for Visual Analytics
- 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 Data Visualisation Catalogue
- 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
- The visual display of quantitative information
- The Wall Street journal guide to information graphics: the dos and don'ts of presenting...
- Thematic Cartography and Geovisualization
- UMATO: Bridging Local and Global Structures for Reliable Visual Analytics With Dimensio...
- utilitR, collaborative R documentation (Insee)
- visionscarto.net↗
- Visual complexity: mapping patterns of information
- Visual explanations: images and quantities, evidence and narrative
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- Visualizing with text
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ReferenceTaudière Adrien. 2026. chart. In Visualization Vocabulary, version 1.0.0. IdEst. https://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en/term/chart.html
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author = {Taudière, Adrien},
title = {chart},
booktitle = {Visualization Vocabulary},
year = {2026},
version = {1.0.0},
publisher = {IdEst},
url = {https://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en/term/chart.html},
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