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visual variable
Graphical property carrying information in Bertin's sense.
variable visuelle
Propriété graphique porteuse d'information au sens de Bertin.
Bertin : position, taille, valeur, grain, couleur, orientation, forme. Börner et al. 2019 les divisent en variables spatiales et variables rétiniennes.
Classification
- encoding
Attestation and synonyms
- French term: Bertin, Sémiologie graphique, 1967
- English definition: Semiology of graphics: diagrams, networks, maps
Sources (24)
184 occurrences in the corpus; indexed by 7 books
Show the 24 sources
- alg.manifoldapp.org
- Atlas of knowledge: anyone can map
- Audric, de Bellefon & Durieux, « Analyse spatiale descriptive », Manuel d'analyse spatiale (Insee Méthodes n° 131), 2018
- Bertin, Sémiologie graphique, 1967
- Building Science Graphics: An Illustrated Guide to Communicating Science through Diagra...
- Cartography: thematic map design
- Computational statistics in data science
- Data visualization handbook
- datawrapper.de↗
- 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 ...
- Handling and mapping geographic information
- How maps work: representation, visualization, and design
- Interactive data visualization: foundations, techniques, and applications
- La graphique et le traitement graphique de l'information
- Les fondamentaux de la visualisation de données
- Semiologie graphique: les diagrammes, les réseaux, les cartes.
- Semiology of graphics: diagrams, networks, maps
- The grammar of graphics
- Thematic Cartography and Geovisualization
- visionscarto.net↗
- Visual strategies for biological data
- Visualization of Time-Oriented Data
- Wikipedia in English↗
Cite this entry
Stable addresshttps://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en/term/visual-variable.html
ReferenceTaudière Adrien. 2026. visual variable. In Visualization Vocabulary, version 1.0.0. IdEst. https://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en/term/visual-variable.html
BibTeX
@incollection{taudiere2026-visual-variable,
author = {Taudière, Adrien},
title = {visual variable},
booktitle = {Visualization Vocabulary},
year = {2026},
version = {1.0.0},
publisher = {IdEst},
url = {https://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en/term/visual-variable.html},
note = {CC0 1.0}
}Page created on 2026-10-13. Text last changed on 2026-11-10. Images last changed on 2026-10-13. Numbers computed on 2026-10-22.