Computing Atlas

How Computing Was Built
Sign In
Text size
100%
Theme
Field

Data and Information Visualization

Human-Centered Computing

Data and information visualization is the practice of designing and creating graphic or visual representations of quantitative and qualitative data and information using static, dynamic or interactive visual items. These visualizations are meant to help a target audience visually explore and discover, quickly understand, interpret and gain insight into structures, relationships, correlations, patterns, trends, variations and clusters within data that would otherwise be difficult to identify; when aimed at the public to convey a concise version of information in an engaging way, the practice is typically called infographics. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Facts
Disputed
Origin Year
1987 1
Marks the point often cited for the field's modern computing-graphics emphasis; older data-graphics traditions (such as Minard's 1869 Napoleon diagram) predate the named computing field.
Core Concern
Designing graphic representations of data to help audiences explore, understand and gain insight 1
Connections

Associated With

Data and information visualization is described as emerging in part from graphics research.

Source Data and Information Visualization (Wikipedia)
Data Mining, Fields
Data Science, Fields

Field-to-field association; both are standard neighbouring areas of computing

Data and information visualization is described as emerging in part from human-computer interaction research.

Source Data and Information Visualization (Wikipedia)

Includes

Source Wikipedia: Ben Shneiderman
Bongshin Lee, Pioneers
Source Bongshin Lee (Wikipedia)
Source Chandrajit Bajaj, Wikipedia
Jeffrey Heer, Pioneers
Source Jeffrey Heer (Wikipedia)
Katy Borner, Pioneers
Source Katy Borner, Wikipedia
Source Niklas Elmqvist (Wikipedia)
Peter Eades, Pioneers
Source Wikipedia: Peter Eades
Source Seok-Hee Hong (Wikipedia)
Source Sheelagh Carpendale - Wikipedia
Sources
1. Data and Information Visualization (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia Foundation
  • Lead section
    Data and information visualization (data viz/vis or info viz/vis) is the practice of designing and creating graphic or visual representations of quantitative and qualitative data and information with the help of static, dynamic or interactive visual items.
  • History paragraph on the modern study of visualization
    The recent emphasis on visualization started in 1987 with the special issue of Computer Graphics on Visualization in Scientific Computing.
View the Source
Katy Borner, Wikipedia
Includes: Katy Borner, Lead section
Quote, Includes: Katy Borner, Lead section
specializing in data analysis and visualization
View the Source
Chandrajit Bajaj, Wikipedia
Includes: Chandrajit Bajaj, Lead
Quote, Includes: Chandrajit Bajaj, Lead
He is a professor of computer science at the University of Texas at Austin holding the Computational Applied Mathematics Chair in Visualization and is the director of the Computational Visualization Center, in the Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences (ICES).
View the Source
Wikipedia: Peter Eades
Includes: Peter Eades, Lead
Quote, Includes: Peter Eades, Lead
Tollis) of the book Graph drawing: Algorithms for the visualization of graphs, and of the associated survey "Algorithms for drawing graphs: an annotated bibliography".
View the Source
Niklas Elmqvist (Wikipedia)
Includes: Niklas Elmqvist, Lead
Quote, Includes: Niklas Elmqvist, Lead
He is the Director of the Center for Anytime Anywhere Analytics at Aarhus University, a research center on augmented reality and extended reality (AR/XR) for data visualization.
View the Source
Sheelagh Carpendale - Wikipedia
Includes: Sheelagh Carpendale, Lead paragraphView the Source
Seok-Hee Hong (Wikipedia)
Includes: Seok-Hee Hong, Lead paragraphView the Source
Bongshin Lee (Wikipedia)
Includes: Bongshin Lee, Lead paragraphView the Source
Wikipedia: Ben Shneiderman
Wikimedia FoundationIncludes: Ben Shneiderman, Infobox field and known_for, lead paragraphView the Source
Jeffrey Heer (Wikipedia)
Includes: Jeffrey Heer, Infobox field and known_for, lead paragraphView the Source
Comments (0)
No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.
Reader Challenges (0)
No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.