process
graph paper
Paper printed with a regular grid for plotting data by hand.
papier millimétré
Papier imprimé d'une grille régulière pour tracer des données à la main.
Indexé par Tufte (Envisioning Information), Friendly & Wainer et Milestones. Premier papier imprimé d'une grille vendu sous brevet par Buxton en 1794 (Friendly & Wainer). Bertin le recommande à 1 ou 2 mm. Tufte conseille une grille à peine visible (« ghost grid ») et édite la sienne : grille de 1 cm ou de 1/4 à 1/2 pouce, format tabloïd 11 × 17 pouces ou lettre.
Classification
- process
Attestation
Sources (18)
45 occurrences in the corpus; indexed by 3 books
Show the 18 sources
- Bertin, Sémiologie graphique, 1967
- Cartography: thematic map design
- Envisioning information
- French Wikipedia↗
- Friendly & Wainer, A History of Data Visualization and Graphic Communication, Harvard University Press, 2021
- Graphic presentation
- Handling and mapping geographic information
- Information Graphics: A Comprehensive Illustrated Reference
- La graphique et le traitement graphique de l'information
- LibreTexts Statistics, textbook chapters on charts
- Making and Breaking the Grid, Third Edition
- Milestones in the history of thematic cartography, statistical graphics, and data visua...
- Questions in Dataviz: A Design-Driven Process for Data Visualisation
- Semiologie graphique: les diagrammes, les réseaux, les cartes.
- Show me the numbers: designing tables and graphs to enlighten
- The visual display of quantitative information
- Visual explanations: images and quantities, evidence and narrative
- Wikipedia in English↗
Cite this entry
Stable addresshttps://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en/term/graph-paper.html
ReferenceTaudière Adrien. 2026. graph paper. In Visualization Vocabulary, version 1.0.0. IdEst. https://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en/term/graph-paper.html
BibTeX
@incollection{taudiere2026-graph-paper,
author = {Taudière, Adrien},
title = {graph paper},
booktitle = {Visualization Vocabulary},
year = {2026},
version = {1.0.0},
publisher = {IdEst},
url = {https://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en/term/graph-paper.html},
note = {CC0 1.0}
}Page created on 2026-10-13. Text last changed on 2026-10-13. Numbers computed on 2026-10-22.