critique
chartjunk
Graphical ornament that carries no information.
chartjunk
aussi : fioritures graphiquesOrnements graphiques qui n'apportent aucune information.
Terme de Tufte souvent conservé tel quel en français.
Classification
- critique
Attestation and synonyms
- bruit graphique; French Wikipedia↗ en
Sources (25)
168 occurrences in the corpus; indexed by 10 books
Show the 25 sources
- Beautiful evidence
- Cartography: thematic map design
- Computational statistics in data science
- Data points: visualization that means something
- Data Visualisation Guide, data.europa.eu
- Data visualization handbook
- Data visualization: a practical introduction
- Effective data storytelling: how to drive change with data, narrative, and visuals
- Envisioning information
- French Wikipedia↗ en
- Information graphics
- Information Graphics: A Comprehensive Illustrated Reference
- Les fondamentaux de la visualisation de données
- LibreTexts Statistics, textbook chapters on charts
- Manuel de datavisualisation - 2e éd, vol. 2
- Questions in Dataviz: A Design-Driven Process for Data Visualisation
- Seeing with fresh eyes: meaning, space, data, truth
- The elements of graphing data
- The functional art: an introduction to information graphics and visualization
- The grammar of graphics
- The visual display of quantitative information
- Tufte, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, 2nd ed., 2001
- Visual explanations: images and quantities, evidence and narrative
- Visual strategies for biological data
- Wikipedia — Data and information visualization
Cite this entry
Stable addresshttps://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en/term/chartjunk.html
ReferenceTaudière Adrien. 2026. chartjunk. In Visualization Vocabulary, version 1.0.0. IdEst. https://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en/term/chartjunk.html
BibTeX
@incollection{taudiere2026-chartjunk,
author = {Taudière, Adrien},
title = {chartjunk},
booktitle = {Visualization Vocabulary},
year = {2026},
version = {1.0.0},
publisher = {IdEst},
url = {https://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en/term/chartjunk.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.