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mark
Basic geometric element of a chart.
marque
Élément géométrique de base d'un graphique.
Börner et al. 2019 parlent de symbole graphique, en trois classes : géométrique, linguistique et pictural.
Classification
- encoding
Attestation and synonyms
- French term: Munzner, Visualization Analysis and Design, 2014
- English definition: Data Visualisation Guide, data.europa.eu
Sources (114)
1180 occurrences in the corpus; indexed by 4 books
Show the 114 sources
- 100 diagrams that changed the world: from the earliest cave paintings to the innovation...
- A field guide to digital color
- analysisfunction.civilservice.gov.uk
- Applied Multivariate Statistics in R
- Atlas of knowledge: anyone can map
- Ault, Nam Liao & Musolino, Principles of Data Science, OpenStax, 2025
- Beautiful evidence
- Better data visualizations: a guide for scholars, researchers, and wonks
- Bremer & Barone, Chart, CRC Press, 2025
- Building Science Graphics: An Illustrated Guide to Communicating Science through Diagra...
- Cartographies of Time
- Cartography: thematic map design
- Ciccione, Dehaene & Dehaene, Outlier Detection and Rejection in Scatterplots, JEP: Human Perception and Performance, 2023↗
- Ciccione, Sablé-Meyer & Dehaene, Analyzing the Misperception of Exponential Growth in Graphs, Cognition, 2022↗
- Computational statistics in data science
- Cook & Laa, Interactively Exploring High-Dimensional Data and Models in R, Chapman & Hall/CRC, 2026
- Data Feminism
- Data fluency: empowering your organization with effective data communication
- Data points: visualization that means something
- Data sketches
- Data story: explain data and inspire action through story
- Data Visualisation Guide, data.europa.eu
- Data visualisation: a handbook for data driven design
- Data visualization handbook
- Data visualization literacy: Definitions, conceptual frameworks, exercises, and assessm...
- Data visualization: a practical introduction
- Data-driven storytelling
- dataphys.org
- datavizindex.fr
- datawrapper.de↗
- Dehaene, “The Perception of Graphics: A New Instance of Neuronal Recycling”, lecture course at the Collège de France, 2025 (in French)↗
- Design for information: an introduction to the histories, theories, and best practices ...
- Effective data storytelling: how to drive change with data, narrative, and visuals
- Effective data visualization: the right chart for the right data
- Elavsky, Chartability: POUR-CAF accessibility heuristics
- Envisioning information
- Exploratory Data Analysis: Descriptive Analysis, Visualization, and Dashboard Design (w...
- French Wikipedia — Visualisation de données
- Friendly & Wainer, A History of Data Visualization and Graphic Communication, Harvard University Press, 2021
- Fundamentals of computer graphics
- gka.github.io
- Graphic presentation
- Graphics for learning: proven guidelines for planning, designing, and evaluating visual...
- Graphiques : vocabulaire, EBSI Montreal (after the GDT)↗
- Grosjean & Engels, Science des données biologiques I-III (University of Mons)
- Handling and mapping geographic information
- How charts lie: getting smarter about visual information
- How maps work: representation, visualization, and design
- How to lie with statistics
- Impossible to ignore: creating memorable content to influence decisions
- Info we trust: how to inspire the world with data
- Information graphics
- Information Graphics: A Comprehensive Illustrated Reference
- Information theory tools for visualization
- Interactive data visualization: foundations, techniques, and applications
- jfly.uni-koeln.de
- L’Atlas Molière
- La graphique et le traitement graphique de l'information
- Lagarenne, Minodier & Samson, « Comment présenter nos données pour mieux communiquer ? La datavisualisation : synthèse et simplicité », Courrier des statistiques n° 10 (Insee), 2023↗
- Larmarange et al., analyse-R: introduction to survey analysis with R
- Larmarange, guide-R: analysing survey data with R
- 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
- Milestones in the history of thematic cartography, statistical graphics, and data visua...
- More Practical Charts
- Munzner, Visualization Analysis and Design, 2014
- 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 ...
- QCBS R Workshop Series, French version (Quebec Centre for Biodiversity Science)
- Questions in Dataviz: A Design-Driven Process for Data Visualisation
- Rakotomalala, statistics course notes (Université Lyon 2)
- RGAA, French accessibility framework: glossary, criteria and tests
- royal-statistical-society.github.io
- Seeing with fresh eyes: meaning, space, data, truth
- Semiology of graphics: diagrams, networks, maps
- Show me the numbers: designing tables and graphs to enlighten
- sronpersonalpages.nl
- Stop Misusing t-SNE and UMAP for Visual Analytics
- Storytelling with data: let's practice!
- The art of insight: how great visualization designers think
- The big book of dashboards: visualizing your data using real-world business scenarios
- The book of circles: visualizing spheres of knowledge
- The book of trees: visualizing branches of knowledge
- The elements of graphing data
- The elements of typographic style
- The eyes have it: A task by data type taxonomy for information visualizations
- The functional art: an introduction to information graphics and visualization
- The golden age of data visualization: how did we get here?
- The grammar of graphics
- The infographic history of the world
- The Minard System: The Complete Statistical Graphics of Charles-Joseph Minard
- The Oxford Handbook of Empirical Aesthetics
- The Truthful Art: Data, Charts, and Maps for Communication
- The visual display of quantitative information
- The Wall Street journal guide to information graphics: the dos and don'ts of presenting...
- Thematic Cartography and Geovisualization
- typographies.fr↗
- visionscarto.net↗
- Visual complexity: mapping patterns of information
- Visual explanations: images and quantities, evidence and narrative
- Visual strategies for biological data
- Visualization Analysis and Design
- Visualization of Time-Oriented Data
- Visualize This
- Visualizing with text
- Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1, authorized French translation (W3C)
- Wickham, Navarro & Pedersen, ggplot2: Elegant Graphics for Data Analysis, 3rd ed. online↗
- wiki.wordsoftype.com
- Wilke, Fundamentals of Data Visualization, O'Reilly, 2019
Cite this entry
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ReferenceTaudière Adrien. 2026. mark. In Visualization Vocabulary, version 1.0.0. IdEst. https://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en/term/mark.html
BibTeX
@incollection{taudiere2026-mark,
author = {Taudière, Adrien},
title = {mark},
booktitle = {Visualization Vocabulary},
year = {2026},
version = {1.0.0},
publisher = {IdEst},
url = {https://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en/term/mark.html},
note = {CC0 1.0}
}Page created on 2026-10-13. Text last changed on 2026-10-13. Numbers computed on 2026-10-22.