Visualization VocabularyDataviz vocabulary
Diagram: Cleveland-McGill hierarchy
Drawing: Adrien Taudière, after Cleveland et al. 1984, p. 536, list of the ten tasks (CC0)

perception

Cleveland-McGill hierarchy

also: elementary perceptual tasks

Ranking of encodings by reading accuracy with position first.

hiérarchie de Cleveland et McGill

aussi : tâches perceptives élémentaires

Classement des encodages par précision de lecture la position en tête.

Classification

  • perception
  • the name evokes: eponym

Attestation

Sources (7)

17 occurrences in the corpus

Cite this entry

Stable addresshttps://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en/term/cleveland-hierarchy.html

ReferenceTaudière Adrien. 2026. Cleveland-McGill hierarchy. In Visualization Vocabulary, version 1.0.0. IdEst. https://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en/term/cleveland-hierarchy.html

BibTeX
@incollection{taudiere2026-cleveland-hierarchy,
  author    = {Taudière, Adrien},
  title     = {Cleveland-McGill hierarchy},
  booktitle = {Visualization Vocabulary},
  year      = {2026},
  version   = {1.0.0},
  publisher = {IdEst},
  url       = {https://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en/term/cleveland-hierarchy.html},
  note      = {CC0 1.0}
}

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