Data Visualization - Visual (or Mark)

A visual is an object created from visual primitive that gets the value of its properties from the data.

See also: Visual Encoding

• Bar (ie rectangle)
• Point (ie Circle or Square)
• Line
• Area (area below the line)
• Tick (Horizontal or Vertical line of the same length but not the same position)
• Data Visualization - Box Plot

but also more elaborate: Chernoff face (Smiley,…)

• image
• illustration
• icon
• Emoji

Regular Text is not considered as a visual but the below typographic effect are

• A heading is a short sentence that summarize a section of text
• Quote

They are based on the Glyph usage (ie font, size)