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Diagram: natural breaks
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natural breaks

also: Jenks natural breaks

Classification placing breaks so as to minimize variance within classes.

seuils naturels

aussi : discrétisation de Jenks

Discrétisation qui place les seuils de façon à minimiser la variance à l'intérieur des classes.

Classification

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  • the name evokes: eponym

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57 occurrences in the corpus; indexed by 3 books

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Cite this entry

Stable addresshttps://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en/term/natural-breaks.html

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

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

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