Visualization VocabularyDataviz vocabulary

data

independent variable

Variable that is varied and does not depend on the other data in the chart.

variable indépendante

aussi : variable explicative

Variable que l'on fait varier et qui ne dépend pas des autres données du graphique.

Par convention elle occupe l'axe des abscisses : le temps d'une série temporelle en est une.

Classification

  • data

Attestation

Sources (35)

70 occurrences in the corpus; indexed by 3 books

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Cite this entry

Stable addresshttps://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en/term/independent-variable.html

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

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

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