Visualization VocabularyDataviz vocabulary
Diagram: chart
Drawing: Adrien Taudière (CC0)
Explanatory diagram: chart
Drawing: Adrien Taudière (CC0)
ggplot2 example: chart
Adrien Taudière (CC0); R code ↓; data: Galton 1886, via HistData (Friendly et al. 2026) (GPL)

chart

chart

also: graph, plot

Visual 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

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)

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Cite this entry

Stable addresshttps://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en/term/chart.html

ReferenceTaudière Adrien. 2026. chart. In Visualization Vocabulary, version 1.0.0. IdEst. https://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en/term/chart.html

BibTeX
@incollection{taudiere2026-chart,
  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},
  note      = {CC0 1.0}
}

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