Visualization VocabularyDataviz vocabulary
Diagram: diagram
Drawing: Adrien Taudière (CC0)
ggplot2 example: diagram
Adrien Taudière (CC0); R code ↓; data: palmerpenguins (Horst, Hill & Gorman 2020) (CC0)
Wikidata image: diagram
Pluke (CC0); Wikimedia Commons; item Q959962

chart

diagram

Construction in which “the correspondences in the plane can be established between all the elements of one component and all the elements of another component” (Bertin, translated).

diagramme

Construction dont « les correspondances dans le plan peuvent s'établir entre tous les éléments d'une composante et tous les éléments d'une autre composante ».

Sens strict de Bertin : le diagramme est l'un des quatre groupes d'imposition avec le réseau la carte et la symbolique.

Classification

  • chart

Variants

Attestation

R code of the ggplot2 example

library(ggplot2)
library(dplyr)
library(palmerpenguins)

## Two components, species and islands, every species set against every
## island: the area of a square codes the number of penguins.
counts <- penguins |>
  count(species, island) |>
  tidyr::complete(species, island, fill = list(n = 0))

p <- ggplot(counts, aes(x = island, y = species)) +
  geom_point(data = filter(counts, n > 0), aes(size = n), shape = 15, colour = "#9b2367") +
  geom_point(data = filter(counts, n == 0), shape = 3, size = 1.5, colour = "#a6a6a6") +
  geom_text(data = filter(counts, n > 0), aes(label = n), colour = "white", size = 2.8) +
  scale_size_area(max_size = 22, guide = "none") +
  labs(title = "Only Adelies were sampled on more than one island",
       subtitle = "Penguins sampled by species and island, 2007–2009",
       x = NULL, y = NULL,
       caption = "Data: palmerpenguins (Horst, Hill & Gorman 2020)") +
  theme_lex_viz(grid = "xy", arrows = "")

Sources (112)

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Cite this entry

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

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

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

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