Information visualization

Information visualization or information visualisation is the study of (interactive) visual representations of abstract data to reinforce human cognition.

Description

The abstract data include both numerical and non-numerical data, such as text and geographic information.

However, information visualization differs from scientific visualization: "it’s infovis [information visualization] when the spatial representation is chosen, and it’s scivis [scientific visualization] when the spatial representation is given".

See also

• Data
• Data (computing)
• Design
• Information

External links

• Information visualization @ Wikipedia