map
dot density map
also: dot mapScattered dots whose count encodes a total.
carte par points
aussi : carte de densité de pointsPoints dispersés dont le nombre code un effectif.
Classification
- map
- maps › symbol maps
- spatial; Financial Times Visual Vocabulary
Attestation
Scientific literature
OpenAlex: 36 papers since 2002, 28% in the last five years; mostly in Social Sciences, Computer Science, Medicine
Seminal references
Sources (25)
212 occurrences in the corpus; indexed by 9 books
Show the 25 sources
- Atlas of knowledge: anyone can map
- Better data visualizations: a guide for scholars, researchers, and wonks
- Cartography: thematic map design
- Data visualisation: a handbook for data driven design
- Data visualization handbook
- Data Viz Project
- datavizproject.com
- Design for information: an introduction to the histories, theories, and best practices ...
- Effective data storytelling: how to drive change with data, narrative, and visuals
- French Wikipedia — Visualisation de données
- Friendly & Wainer, A History of Data Visualization and Graphic Communication, Harvard University Press, 2021
- Graphic presentation
- Handling and mapping geographic information
- How maps work: representation, visualization, and design
- Information Graphics: A Comprehensive Illustrated Reference
- Interactive data visualization: foundations, techniques, and applications
- Lambert, Giraud & Ysebaert, « Enjeux de communication dans la multireprésentation cartographique reproductible », Communication cartographique, ISTE, 2022↗
- Les fondamentaux de la visualisation de données
- Milestones in the history of thematic cartography, statistical graphics, and data visua...
- Semiology of graphics: diagrams, networks, maps
- The Truthful Art: Data, Charts, and Maps for Communication
- The visual display of quantitative information
- Thematic Cartography and Geovisualization
- Visual explanations: images and quantities, evidence and narrative
- Visualize This
Cite this entry
Stable addresshttps://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en/term/dot-density-map.html
ReferenceTaudière Adrien. 2026. dot density map. In Visualization Vocabulary, version 1.0.0. IdEst. https://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en/term/dot-density-map.html
BibTeX
@incollection{taudiere2026-dot-density-map,
author = {Taudière, Adrien},
title = {dot density map},
booktitle = {Visualization Vocabulary},
year = {2026},
version = {1.0.0},
publisher = {IdEst},
url = {https://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en/term/dot-density-map.html},
note = {CC0 1.0}
}Page created on 2026-10-13. Text last changed on 2026-11-10. Images last changed on 2026-11-10. Numbers computed on 2026-10-22.