mosaic plot

English

Mosaic plot showing cross-sectional distribution through time of different musical themes in the Guardian newspaper's list of "1000 songs to hear before you die".

Noun

mosaic plot (plural mosaic plots)

1. A kind of graphic visualization of data from two or more qualitative variables, where the area of each tile is proportional to the number of observations within that category.

   Synonym: Marimekko chart