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tick mark
Marker indicating a value on an axis.
graduation
aussi : marque de graduationRepère marquant une valeur sur un axe.
Classification
- encoding
Attestation
- French term: Grand dictionnaire terminologique, OQLF (via EBSI, Montreal)
- English definition: The elements of graphing data
Sources (32)
91 occurrences in the corpus; indexed by 5 books
Show the 32 sources
- analysisfunction.civilservice.gov.uk
- Better data visualizations: a guide for scholars, researchers, and wonks
- Cartography: thematic map design
- Ciccione, Sablé-Meyer & Dehaene, Analyzing the Misperception of Exponential Growth in Graphs, Cognition, 2022↗
- Data fluency: empowering your organization with effective data communication
- Data points: visualization that means something
- Data sketches
- Data visualization handbook
- dataphys.org
- Design for information: an introduction to the histories, theories, and best practices ...
- Effective data visualization: the right chart for the right data
- Grand dictionnaire terminologique, OQLF (via EBSI, Montreal)
- Graphic presentation
- How charts lie: getting smarter about visual information
- Information Graphics: A Comprehensive Illustrated Reference
- Larmarange, guide-R: analysing survey data with R
- LibreTexts Statistics, textbook chapters on charts
- Magrit user manual, French version (UAR RIATE, CNRS)
- Making numbers count: the art and science of communicating numbers
- Practical charts: the essential guide to creating clear, compelling charts for reports ...
- Rakotomalala, statistics course notes (Université Lyon 2)
- royal-statistical-society.github.io
- Show me the numbers: designing tables and graphs to enlighten
- The book of circles: visualizing spheres of knowledge
- The elements of graphing data
- The grammar of graphics
- The Truthful Art: Data, Charts, and Maps for Communication
- The visual display of quantitative information
- Thematic Cartography and Geovisualization
- utilitR, collaborative R documentation (Insee)
- Visualization of Time-Oriented Data
- Wickham, Navarro & Pedersen, ggplot2: Elegant Graphics for Data Analysis, 3rd ed. online↗
Cite this entry
Stable addresshttps://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en/term/tick.html
ReferenceTaudière Adrien. 2026. tick mark. In Visualization Vocabulary, version 1.0.0. IdEst. https://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en/term/tick.html
BibTeX
@incollection{taudiere2026-tick,
author = {Taudière, Adrien},
title = {tick mark},
booktitle = {Visualization Vocabulary},
year = {2026},
version = {1.0.0},
publisher = {IdEst},
url = {https://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en/term/tick.html},
note = {CC0 1.0}
}Page created on 2026-10-13. Text last changed on 2026-11-10. Images last changed on 2026-10-22. Numbers computed on 2026-10-22.