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*[Bhargava, 2003]: Bharat Bhargava, [http://www.public.asu.edu/abharg2/DViz/OVintro.htm ''Data Visualization Overview''], 2003.
*[Bhargava, 2003]: Bharat Bhargava, [http://www.public.asu.edu/abharg2/DViz/OVintro.htm ''Data Visualization Overview''], 2003.
*[http://www.math.yorku.ca/SCS/Gallery/milestone/milestone.pdf Friendly and Denis, 2004]: Michael Friendly and Daniel J. Denis, Milestones in the history of thematic cartography, statistical graphics, and data visualization, 14.April 2004.
*[Friendly and Denis, 2004]: Michael Friendly and Daniel J. Denis, [http://www.math.yorku.ca/SCS/Gallery/milestone/milestone.pdf Milestones in the history of thematic cartography, statistical graphics, and data visualization], April 14, 2004.


   
   
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Revision as of 11:10, 12 September 2005

Data visualization is the process of using graphical presentation to represent complex data in a way that provides the viewer with a qualitative understanding of its information contents, turning complicated sets of data into visual insights. [Bhargava, 2003]
Complex example of data visualization

By presenting data in a way that suits human perception, data visualization becomes the essential tool for exploratory data analysis.

... the science of visual representation of “data”, defined as information which has been abstracted in some schematic form, including attributes or variables for the units of information.
[Friendly and Denis, 2004]


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