graphique
sparkline
aussi : mini-graphiquePetit graphique sans axes inséré dans le texte.
sparkline
Small axis-free chart embedded in running text.
Terme de Tufte ; pas d'équivalent français stabilisé.
Classification
- graphique
- courbes et aires › courbes
- évolution dans le temps
Canaux
position sur une échelle commune; principal : valeur (sans axe)
Attestation
- terme français : Tufte, Beautiful Evidence, 2006
Littérature scientifique
OpenAlex : 201 articles depuis 2006, dont 28 % ces cinq dernières années; surtout en Computer Science, Mathematics, Business, Management and Accounting; Wikidata
Références séminales
- formalisation (2006) Tufte (2006). Beautiful Evidence. Graphics Press; Friendly & Denis 2001, Ciuccarelli 2026
Paquets R
- R
gtExtras::gt_plt_sparkline(); GitHub 223 étoiles; dernier commit 2026-01 Dans un tableau gt. - R
ggspark::stat_sparklabels(); GitHub 13 étoiles; dernier commit 2024-05; article (0 citations) Étiquettes et écart interquartile d'une sparkline tracée par ggplot2. - R
sparkline::sparkline()
Code R de l'exemple ggplot2
library(ggplot2)
library(dplyr)
library(gapminder)
shown <- c("Cambodia", "China", "Rwanda", "Botswana", "Zimbabwe", "Iraq", "Japan")
## Each line on its own scale, in a band of height 0.7 on its own row.
lines <- gapminder |>
filter(country %in% shown) |>
mutate(row = match(country, rev(shown))) |>
group_by(country) |>
mutate(y = row + 0.7 * (lifeExp - min(lifeExp)) / (max(lifeExp) - min(lifeExp))) |>
ungroup()
last <- lines |>
filter(year == 2007)
p <- ggplot(lines, aes(x = year, y = y, group = country)) +
geom_line(linewidth = 0.5, colour = "#9b2367") +
geom_point(data = last, size = 1.3, colour = "#9b2367") +
geom_text(data = last, aes(x = 1946, y = row + 0.35, label = country), hjust = 1, size = 3.2) +
geom_text(data = last, aes(x = 2010, label = paste(round(lifeExp), "years")), hjust = 0, size = 3.2) +
scale_x_continuous(limits = c(1922, 2030)) +
labs(title = "Only Japan's life expectancy never fell",
subtitle = "Life expectancy from 1952 to 2007, each line on its own scale; value in 2007",
x = NULL, y = NULL,
caption = "Data: Gapminder, via the gapminder R package") +
theme_lex_viz(grid = "", arrows = "") +
theme(axis.text = element_blank())Sources (24)
72 occurrences dans le corpus; indexé par 8 ouvrages
Afficher les 24 sources
- Atlas of knowledge: anyone can map
- Beautiful evidence
- Better data visualizations: a guide for scholars, researchers, and wonks
- Data visualization handbook
- Data Viz Project
- datavizproject.com
- datawrapper.de↗
- Dehaene, « La perception des graphiques : un nouvel exemple de recyclage neuronal », cours au Collège de France, 2025↗
- Effective data visualization: the right chart for the right data
- Larmarange et al., analyse-R : introduction à l'analyse d'enquêtes avec R
- Making and Breaking the Grid, Third Edition
- Milestones in the history of thematic cartography, statistical graphics, and data visua...
- Open Visualization Academy, cours et lettre d'information (Cairo et al.)
- Seeing with fresh eyes: meaning, space, data, truth
- The big book of dashboards: visualizing your data using real-world business scenarios
- The book of trees: visualizing branches of knowledge
- Tufte, Beautiful Evidence, 2006
- Visualization Analysis and Design
- Visualization of Time-Oriented Data
- Visualizing with text
- Wikipedia — Data and information visualization
- Wikipédia — Visualisation de données
- Wikipédia en français↗
- Wikipedia in English↗
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RéférenceTaudière Adrien. 2026. sparkline. Dans Visualization Vocabulary, version 1.0.0. IdEst. https://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/terme/sparkline.html
BibTeX
@incollection{taudiere2026-sparkline,
author = {Taudière, Adrien},
title = {sparkline},
booktitle = {Visualization Vocabulary},
year = {2026},
version = {1.0.0},
publisher = {IdEst},
url = {https://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/terme/sparkline.html},
note = {CC0 1.0}
}Fiche créée le 13/10/2026. Texte modifié le 12/11/2026. Images modifiées le 12/11/2026. Chiffres calculés le 22/10/2026.