map
flow map
Map showing directed movement between places.
carte de flux
aussi : carte de flux de donnéesCarte représentant des déplacements orientés entre lieux.
Le Visual Vocabulary français ajoute « de données » — « carte de flux » suffit et vaut aussi pour des flux physiques.
Classification
- map
- maps › flow maps
- spatial; Financial Times Visual Vocabulary
Attestation
- French term: Lagnel, Manuel de datavisualisation, Dunod, 2021
- English definition: Brinton, Graphic Presentation, 1939↗
Scientific literature
OpenAlex: 1 386 papers since 1961, 38% in the last five years; mostly in Computer Science, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Social Sciences; Wikidata
Seminal references
- first known use (1837) Harness (1838). Atlas to accompany the second report of the Railway Commissioners, Ireland. H.M.S.O.; Friendly & Denis 2001, Andrews 2017
- diffusion (1869) Minard (1869). Carte figurative des pertes successives en hommes de l'armée française dans la campagne de Russie 1812-1813; Friendly & Denis 2001, Andrews 2017
- formalization (2005) Phan et al. (2005). Flow map layout. IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization, 2005. INFOVIS 2005. (58 citations)
R packages
- R
ggplot2::geom_curve(); GitHub 7 025 stars; last commit 2026-10; paper (33 455 citations) Une courbe par flux entre origine et destination. - R
flowmapper::add_flowmap(); GitHub 39 stars; last commit 2025-06
Sources (31)
172 occurrences in the corpus; indexed by 10 books
Show the 31 sources
- app.flourish.studio
- Atlas of knowledge: anyone can map
- Better data visualizations: a guide for scholars, researchers, and wonks
- Brinton, Graphic Presentation, 1939↗
- Cartography: thematic map design
- Data Visualisation Guide, data.europa.eu
- Data visualisation: a handbook for data driven design
- Data visualization handbook
- Data Viz Project
- datavis.ca↗
- datavizcatalogue.com
- datavizproject.com
- Design for information: an introduction to the histories, theories, and best practices ...
- Friendly & Wainer, A History of Data Visualization and Graphic Communication, Harvard University Press, 2021
- Graphic presentation
- Information graphics
- Information Graphics: A Comprehensive Illustrated Reference
- Interactive data visualization: foundations, techniques, and applications
- Lagnel, Manuel de datavisualisation, Dunod, 2021
- Les fondamentaux de la visualisation de données
- Milestones in the history of thematic cartography, statistical graphics, and data visua...
- The golden age of data visualization: how did we get here?
- The Minard System: The Complete Statistical Graphics of Charles-Joseph Minard
- The Truthful Art: Data, Charts, and Maps for Communication
- Thematic Cartography and Geovisualization
- visionscarto.net↗
- Visual complexity: mapping patterns of information
- Visual strategies for biological data
- Visualization Analysis and Design
- Visualization of Time-Oriented Data
- Wikipedia in English↗
Cite this entry
Stable addresshttps://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en/term/flow-map.html
ReferenceTaudière Adrien. 2026. flow map. In Visualization Vocabulary, version 1.0.0. IdEst. https://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en/term/flow-map.html
BibTeX
@incollection{taudiere2026-flow-map,
author = {Taudière, Adrien},
title = {flow map},
booktitle = {Visualization Vocabulary},
year = {2026},
version = {1.0.0},
publisher = {IdEst},
url = {https://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en/term/flow-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.