Glyph (data visualization)
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In the context of data visualization, a glyph is any marker, such as an arrow or similar marking, used to specify part of a scientific visualization.
In the context of data visualization, a glyph is the visual representation of a piece of data where the attributes of a graphical entity are dictated by one or more attributes of a data record.
— Matthew O. Ward, Multivariate data glyphs: Principles and practice, In: Handbook of data visualization (2008), p.180.
References
- Chen, Chun-houh; Härdle, Wolfgang; Unwin, Antony, eds. (2008). Handbook of data visualization. Springer Handbooks of Computational Statistics. Springer. ISBN 978-3-540-33036-3.