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semiology of graphics
Bertin's theory of how graphical signs work.
sémiologie graphique
Théorie de Bertin sur le fonctionnement des signes graphiques.
Classification
- encoding
Attestation
- French term: Bertin, Sémiologie graphique, 1967
- English definition: Semiology of graphics: diagrams, networks, maps
Sources (51)
141 occurrences in the corpus; indexed by 2 books
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- Atlas of knowledge: anyone can map
- Bertin, Sémiologie graphique, 1967
- Building Science Graphics: An Illustrated Guide to Communicating Science through Diagra...
- Cartography: thematic map design
- Data points: visualization that means something
- 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
- 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 ...
- French Wikipedia↗
- French Wikipedia — Visualisation de données
- Friendly & Wainer, A History of Data Visualization and Graphic Communication, Harvard University Press, 2021
- Giraud & Pecout, Géomatique et cartographie avec R
- Handling and mapping geographic information
- How charts lie: getting smarter about visual information
- How maps work: representation, visualization, and design
- Info we trust: how to inspire the world with data
- Information graphics
- Information Graphics: A Comprehensive Illustrated Reference
- Insee, Guide de sémiologie graphique, édition 2017↗
- Interactive data visualization: foundations, techniques, and applications
- 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
- Les fondamentaux de la visualisation de données
- Magrit user manual, French version (UAR RIATE, CNRS)
- Manuel de datavisualisation - 2e éd, vol. 2
- 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)
- Semiology of graphics: diagrams, networks, maps
- The art of insight: how great visualization designers think
- The book of circles: visualizing spheres of knowledge
- The book of trees: visualizing branches of knowledge
- 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 Truthful Art: Data, Charts, and Maps for Communication
- The visual display of quantitative information
- Thematic Cartography and Geovisualization
- visionscarto.net↗
- Visual complexity: mapping patterns of information
- Visual strategies for biological data
- Visualization Analysis and Design
- Visualization of Time-Oriented Data
- Visualize This
- Visualizing with text
Cite this entry
Stable addresshttps://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en/term/semiology-of-graphics.html
ReferenceTaudière Adrien. 2026. semiology of graphics. In Visualization Vocabulary, version 1.0.0. IdEst. https://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en/term/semiology-of-graphics.html
BibTeX
@incollection{taudiere2026-semiology-of-graphics,
author = {Taudière, Adrien},
title = {semiology of graphics},
booktitle = {Visualization Vocabulary},
year = {2026},
version = {1.0.0},
publisher = {IdEst},
url = {https://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en/term/semiology-of-graphics.html},
note = {CC0 1.0}
}Page created on 2026-10-13. Text last changed on 2026-11-10. Numbers computed on 2026-10-22.