statistics
variance
Square of the standard deviation measuring spread.
variance
Carré de l'écart-type mesurant la dispersion.
Classification
- statistics
Attestation
- French term: Bertin, Sémiologie graphique, 1967
- English definition: The elements of graphing data
Sources (69)
660 occurrences in the corpus; indexed by 5 books
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- Applied Multivariate Statistics in R
- Atlas of knowledge: anyone can map
- Audric, de Bellefon & Durieux, « Analyse spatiale descriptive », Manuel d'analyse spatiale (Insee Méthodes n° 131), 2018
- Ault, Nam Liao & Musolino, Principles of Data Science, OpenStax, 2025
- Barnier, Introduction à R et au tidyverse
- Beautiful evidence
- Bertin, Sémiologie graphique, 1967
- Better data visualizations: a guide for scholars, researchers, and wonks
- 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 fluency: empowering your organization with effective data communication
- Data points: visualization that means something
- Data story: explain data and inspire action through story
- Data visualisation: a handbook for data driven design
- Data visualization: a practical introduction
- datawrapper.de↗
- Dehaene, “The Perception of Graphics: A New Instance of Neuronal Recycling”, lecture course at the Collège de France, 2025 (in French)↗
- Effective data storytelling: how to drive change with data, narrative, and visuals
- Effective data visualization: the right chart for the right data
- 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
- Fundamentals of computer graphics
- Graphical Perception: Theory, Experimentation, and Application to the Development of Gr...
- Grosjean & Engels, Science des données biologiques I-III (University of Mons)
- Handling and mapping geographic information
- How maps work: representation, visualization, and design
- Impossible to ignore: creating memorable content to influence decisions
- Info we trust: how to inspire the world with data
- Information Graphics: A Comprehensive Illustrated Reference
- Information theory tools for visualization
- Interactive data visualization: foundations, techniques, and applications
- La graphique et le traitement graphique de l'information
- Larmarange et al., analyse-R: introduction to survey analysis with R
- Larmarange, guide-R: analysing survey data with R
- LibreTexts Statistics, textbook chapters on charts
- Living in data: a citizen's guide to a better information
- Magrit user manual, French version (UAR RIATE, CNRS)
- Making and Breaking the Grid, Third Edition
- Milestones in the history of thematic cartography, statistical graphics, and data visua...
- PBIL biostatistics notes (Chessel, Dufour, Thioulouse et al., Lyon 1)
- Progressive Data Analysis: Roadmap and Research Agenda
- QCBS R Workshop Series, French version (Quebec Centre for Biodiversity Science)
- Rakotomalala, statistics course notes (Université Lyon 2)
- Seeing with fresh eyes: meaning, space, data, truth
- Semiologie graphique: les diagrammes, les réseaux, les cartes.
- Semiology of graphics: diagrams, networks, maps
- Show me the numbers: designing tables and graphs to enlighten
- 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 trees: visualizing branches of knowledge
- The elements of graphing data
- The grammar of graphics
- The Oxford Handbook of Empirical Aesthetics
- The Truthful Art: Data, Charts, and Maps for Communication
- Thematic Cartography and Geovisualization
- UMATO: Bridging Local and Global Structures for Reliable Visual Analytics With Dimensio...
- utilitR, collaborative R documentation (Insee)
- Visualization Analysis and Design
- Visualization of Time-Oriented Data
- Visualizing Uncertainty About the Future
- Visualizing with text
- Wikipedia in English↗
- Wilke, Fundamentals of Data Visualization, O'Reilly, 2019
Cite this entry
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ReferenceTaudière Adrien. 2026. variance. In Visualization Vocabulary, version 1.0.0. IdEst. https://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en/term/variance.html
BibTeX
@incollection{taudiere2026-variance,
author = {Taudière, Adrien},
title = {variance},
booktitle = {Visualization Vocabulary},
year = {2026},
version = {1.0.0},
publisher = {IdEst},
url = {https://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en/term/variance.html},
note = {CC0 1.0}
}Page created on 2026-10-13. Text last changed on 2026-11-10. Numbers computed on 2026-10-22.