critique
efficiency
Quality of a construction answering a question correctly in a shorter observation time than another.
efficacité
aussi : prégnanceQualité d'une construction qui répond correctement à une question en un temps d'observation plus court qu'une autre.
Définition verbatim de Bertin. L'efficacité se juge question par question, jamais dans l'absolu : c'est la notion de coût mental de la perception. À distinguer du principe d'efficacité de Munzner (effectiveness), qui apparie l'importance des attributs à la saillance des canaux.
Classification
- critique
Attestation
- French term: Bertin, Sémiologie graphique, 1967
- English definition: Data Visualisation Guide, data.europa.eu
Sources (83)
386 occurrences in the corpus; indexed by 2 books
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- Exploratory Data Analysis: Descriptive Analysis, Visualization, and Dashboard Design (w...
- Friendly & Wainer, A History of Data Visualization and Graphic Communication, Harvard University Press, 2021
- Fundamentals of computer graphics
- Graphic presentation
- Graphics for learning: proven guidelines for planning, designing, and evaluating visual...
- Grosjean & Engels, Science des données biologiques I-III (University of Mons)
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- How maps work: representation, visualization, and design
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- Information graphics
- Information Graphics: A Comprehensive Illustrated Reference
- Information theory tools for visualization
- Insee, Guide de sémiologie graphique, édition 2017↗
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- Les fondamentaux de la visualisation de données
- LibreTexts Statistics, textbook chapters on charts
- Living in data: a citizen's guide to a better information
- Making and Breaking the Grid, Third Edition
- Making numbers count: the art and science of communicating numbers
- Manuel de datavisualisation - 2e éd, vol. 2
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- Open Visualization Academy, courses and newsletter (Cairo et al.)
- PBIL biostatistics notes (Chessel, Dufour, Thioulouse et al., Lyon 1)
- Practical charts: the essential guide to creating clear, compelling charts for reports ...
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- Seeing with fresh eyes: meaning, space, data, truth
- Semiologie graphique: les diagrammes, les réseaux, les cartes.
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- The elements of graphing data
- The functional art: an introduction to information graphics and visualization
- The grammar of graphics
- The Oxford Handbook of Empirical Aesthetics
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ReferenceTaudière Adrien. 2026. efficiency. In Visualization Vocabulary, version 1.0.0. IdEst. https://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en/term/efficiency.html
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author = {Taudière, Adrien},
title = {efficiency},
booktitle = {Visualization Vocabulary},
year = {2026},
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}Page created on 2026-10-13. Text last changed on 2026-10-13. Numbers computed on 2026-10-22.