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quantitative variable
Visual variable allowing a numeric ratio to be read between two marks.
variable quantitative
Variable visuelle permettant de lire un rapport numérique entre deux marques.
Seules les deux dimensions du plan et la taille le sont.
Classification
- encoding
Attestation
- French term: Bertin, Sémiologie graphique, 1967
- English definition: Semiology of graphics: diagrams, networks, maps
Sources (34)
46 occurrences in the corpus; indexed by 1 book
Show the 34 sources
- Barnier, Introduction à R et au tidyverse
- Bertin, Sémiologie graphique, 1967
- Data visualisation: a handbook for data driven design
- Data visualization handbook
- data-to-viz.com
- Exploratory Data Analysis: Descriptive Analysis, Visualization, and Dashboard Design (w...
- French Wikipedia↗
- French Wikipedia — Visualisation de données
- Friendly & Wainer, A History of Data Visualization and Graphic Communication, Harvard University Press, 2021
- From data to viz
- Graphiques : vocabulaire, EBSI Montreal (after the GDT)↗
- Grosjean & Engels, Science des données biologiques I-III (University of Mons)
- Handling and mapping geographic information
- How maps work: representation, visualization, and design
- Information Graphics: A Comprehensive Illustrated Reference
- 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
- Magrit user manual, French version (UAR RIATE, CNRS)
- Milestones in the history of thematic cartography, statistical graphics, and data visua...
- Open Visualization Academy, courses and newsletter (Cairo et al.)
- PBIL biostatistics notes (Chessel, Dufour, Thioulouse et al., Lyon 1)
- QCBS R Workshop Series, French version (Quebec Centre for Biodiversity Science)
- Rakotomalala, statistics course notes (Université Lyon 2)
- Semiologie graphique: les diagrammes, les réseaux, les cartes.
- Semiology of graphics: diagrams, networks, maps
- Show me the numbers: designing tables and graphs to enlighten
- StatsLearn, “Graphs and displays” glossary↗
- The elements of graphing data
- Visualization of Time-Oriented Data
- Wikipedia — Data and information visualization
- Wikipedia in English↗
- Wilke, Fundamentals of Data Visualization, O'Reilly, 2019
Cite this entry
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ReferenceTaudière Adrien. 2026. quantitative variable. In Visualization Vocabulary, version 1.0.0. IdEst. https://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en/term/quantitative-variable.html
BibTeX
@incollection{taudiere2026-quantitative-variable,
author = {Taudière, Adrien},
title = {quantitative variable},
booktitle = {Visualization Vocabulary},
year = {2026},
version = {1.0.0},
publisher = {IdEst},
url = {https://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en/term/quantitative-variable.html},
note = {CC0 1.0}
}Page created on 2026-10-13. Text last changed on 2026-11-10. Numbers computed on 2026-10-22.