
graphique
diagramme en barres
aussi : graphique en barres, diagramme à barresBarres dont la longueur code une quantité comparée entre catégories.
bar chart
also: bar graph, column chartBars whose length encodes a quantity compared across categories.
Barres verticales = diagramme en colonnes ; horizontales = diagramme en barres. La distinction est déjà chez Brinton en 1939.
Classification
- graphique
- barres › barres simples
- classement, évolution dans le temps, grandeur; Visual Vocabulary du Financial Times
Canaux
longueur; principal : valeur (longueur de la barre depuis zéro); Munzner 2014
région de l'espace; secondaire : catégorie; Munzner 2014
teinte; secondaire : catégorie; Munzner 2014
Variantes
diagramme en aires polairescoordonnées polaires
diagramme en barres divergentesdivergent
diagramme en barres empiléesempilé
diagramme en barres flottantesbarres flottantes
diagramme en barres groupéesgroupé
diagramme en barres radialesradial
diagramme en points de Clevelandpoint sans barre
graphique en cascadebarres flottantes
graphique en entonnoirétapes centrées
graphique en pucecible et plages
graphique en sucettestige et point
pyramide des âgesdos à dos
Attestation et synonymies
- terme français : Lagnel, Manuel de datavisualisation, Dunod, 2021
- définition anglaise : Brinton, Graphic Presentation, 1939↗
Littérature scientifique
OpenAlex : 15 420 articles depuis 1900, dont 43 % ces cinq dernières années; surtout en Computer Science, Medicine, Social Sciences; Wikidata
Références séminales
- premier usage connu (1350) Oresme (vers 1350). Tractatus de configurationibus qualitatum et motuum; Ciuccarelli 2026, The golden age of data visualization: how did we get here?
- premier usage connu (1786) Playfair (1786). The Commercial and Political Atlas; Friendly & Denis 2001, Andrews 2017, Ciuccarelli 2026
Paquets R
- R
ggplot2::geom_bar(); GitHub 7 025 étoiles; dernier commit 2026-10; article (33 455 citations)
Code R de l'exemple ggplot2
library(ggplot2)
library(dplyr)
library(palmerpenguins)
counts <- penguins |>
count(species)
p <- ggplot(counts, aes(x = n, y = reorder(species, n), fill = species)) +
geom_col(width = 0.7) +
scale_x_continuous(labels = lex_number, expand = expansion(mult = c(0, 0.05))) +
labs(title = "Adelie is the most sampled species",
subtitle = "Penguins of the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica",
x = "Number of penguins", y = NULL,
caption = "Data: palmerpenguins (Horst, Hill & Gorman 2020)") +
theme_lex_viz(grid = "x", arrows = "x") +
theme(legend.position = "none")Sources (99)
1985 occurrences dans le corpus; indexé par 23 ouvrages
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- app.flourish.studio
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- Atlas of knowledge: anyone can map
- Ault, Nam Liao & Musolino, Principles of Data Science, OpenStax, 2025
- Barnier, Introduction à R et au tidyverse
- Better data visualizations: a guide for scholars, researchers, and wonks
- blog.datawrapper.de↗
- Bremer & Barone, Chart, CRC Press, 2025
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- Building Science Graphics: An Illustrated Guide to Communicating Science through Diagra...
- Cartographies of Time
- Cartography: thematic map design
- Computational statistics in data science
- Data Feminism
- Data fluency: empowering your organization with effective data communication
- Data points: visualization that means something
- Data sketches
- Data story: explain data and inspire action through story
- Data Visualisation Guide, data.europa.eu
- Data visualisation: a handbook for data driven design
- Data visualization handbook
- Data visualization: a practical introduction
- Data Viz Project
- Data-driven storytelling
- data-to-viz.com
- dataphys.org
- datavis.ca↗
- datavizproject.com
- datawrapper.de↗
- Dehaene, « La perception des graphiques : un nouvel exemple de recyclage neuronal », cours au Collège de France, 2025↗
- Design for information: an introduction to the histories, theories, and best practices ...
- Effective data storytelling: how to drive change with data, narrative, and visuals
- Effective data visualization: the right chart for the right data
- Elavsky, Chartability : heuristiques d'accessibilité POUR-CAF
- Envisioning information
- Exploratory Data Analysis: Descriptive Analysis, Visualization, and Dashboard Design (w...
- Friendly & Wainer, A History of Data Visualization and Graphic Communication, Harvard University Press, 2021
- From data to viz
- Graphic presentation
- Graphical Perception: Theory, Experimentation, and Application to the Development of Gr...
- Graphics for learning: proven guidelines for planning, designing, and evaluating visual...
- Grosjean & Engels, Science des données biologiques I-III (Université de Mons)
- How charts lie: getting smarter about visual information
- How maps work: representation, visualization, and design
- How to lie with statistics
- Info we trust: how to inspire the world with data
- Information graphics
- Information Graphics: A Comprehensive Illustrated Reference
- Interactive data visualization: foundations, techniques, and applications
- Lagnel, Manuel de datavisualisation, Dunod, 2021
- Larmarange et al., analyse-R : introduction à l'analyse d'enquêtes avec R
- Larmarange, guide-R : guide pour l'analyse de données d'enquêtes avec R
- Les fondamentaux de la visualisation de données
- LibreTexts Statistics, chapitres de manuels sur les figures
- Living in data: a citizen's guide to a better information
- Magrit, manuel d'utilisation (UAR RIATE, CNRS)
- Making and Breaking the Grid, Third Edition
- Making numbers count: the art and science of communicating numbers
- Manuel de datavisualisation - 2e éd, vol. 2
- Milestones in the history of thematic cartography, statistical graphics, and data visua...
- More Practical Charts
- Open Visualization Academy, cours et lettre d'information (Cairo et al.)
- Practical charts: the essential guide to creating clear, compelling charts for reports ...
- Progressive Data Analysis: Roadmap and Research Agenda
- Questions in Dataviz: A Design-Driven Process for Data Visualisation
- royal-statistical-society.github.io
- Show me the numbers: designing tables and graphs to enlighten
- StatsLearn, glossaire « Graphs and displays »↗
- 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 circles: visualizing spheres of knowledge
- The elements of graphing data
- The elements of typographic style
- 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 Minard System: The Complete Statistical Graphics of Charles-Joseph Minard
- The Truthful Art: Data, Charts, and Maps for Communication
- The visual display of quantitative information
- The Wall Street journal guide to information graphics: the dos and don'ts of presenting...
- utilitR, documentation collaborative sur R (Insee)
- 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 Uncertainty About the Future
- Visualizing with text
- Wainer & Friendly, On the Origins of Data Visualization, 2022
- Wickham, Çetinkaya-Rundel & Grolemund, R for Data Science, 2e éd., 2023
- Wickham, Navarro & Pedersen, ggplot2: Elegant Graphics for Data Analysis, 3e éd. en ligne↗
- Wikipedia — Data and information visualization
- Wikipédia en français↗ en
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- xeno.graphics↗
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author = {Taudière, Adrien},
title = {diagramme en barres},
booktitle = {Visualization Vocabulary},
year = {2026},
version = {1.0.0},
publisher = {IdEst},
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