Glyph (data visualization) explained

In the context of data visualization, a glyph is any marker, such as an arrow or similar marking, used to specify part of a visualization. This is a representation to visualize data where the data set is presented as a collection of visual objects. These visual objects are collectively called a glyph. It helps visualizing data relation in data analysis, statistics, etc. by using any custom notation.

Constructing glyphs

Glyph construction can be a complex process when there are many dimensions to be represented in the visualization. Maguire et al proposed a taxonomy based approach to glyph-design that uses a tree to guide the visual encodings used to representation various data items.^[1]

Duffy et al created perhaps one of the most complex glyph representations with their representation of sperm movement.

Further reading

• Book: Springer . 978-3-540-33036-3 . Chen . Chun-houh . Wolfgang . Härdle . Antony . Unwin . Handbook of data visualization . Springer Handbooks of Computational Statistics . 2008.

External links

• Visualize Free - Data Visualization Software & Visual Analytics Application
• Data Science - Learn, Grow, Build Connections & Transform The World With AI

Notes and References

1. Maguire . E. . Rocca-Serra. P. . Sansone . S. A. . Davies . J. . Chen . M. . 2012-12-01 . Taxonomy-Based Glyph Design #8212;with a Case Study on Visualizing Workflows of Biological Experiments. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. 18. 12. 2603–2612. 10.1109/TVCG.2012.271. 26357169. 9350966 . 1077-2626.