Visualization

A graphical representation of data or concepts, which is either an internal construct of the mind or an external artifact supporting decision making.

Both scientific visualization and information visualization create graphical models and visual representations from data that support direct user interaction for exploring and acquiring insight into useful information embedded in the underlying data.

[Ferreira and Levkowitz, 2003]

see also: Information Visualization, Scientific Visualization

References

• [Ferreira and Levkowitz, 2003] Maria Cristina Ferreira de Oliveira, Haim Levkowitz, From Visual Data Exploration to Visual Data Mining: A Survey, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 9, no. 3, pp. 378-394, July-September, 2003.
• [Ware, 2000] C. Ware, Information Visualization: Perception for Design. San Francisco: Morgan Kaufmann (Academic Press), p. 1, 2000.
• [Tory and Möller, 2004] Melanie Tory and Torsten Möller, Human Factors in Visualization Research, IEEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 10(1):72-84, January/February 2004.