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What Is Visualization?

What Is Visualization? | information analyst | Scoop.it

This seems like a straightforward question, but it’s proven to be a difficult one to answer. Even visualization researchers – people who think about the subject all day and every day – don’t have a clear definition of what visualization is. Is it synonymous with information graphics? Does visualization have to be computer generated? Does data have to be involved, or can it be abstract? The answers vary depending on who you ask.

To me, visualization is a medium. It’s not just an analysis tool nor just a way to prove a point more clearly through data.

Visualization is like books. There are different writing styles and categories, there are textbooks and there are novels, and they communicate ideas in different ways for varied purposes. And just like authors who use words to communicate, there are rules that you should always follow and others that are guidelines that you can bend and break...


Via Lauren Moss
Fàtima Galan's curator insight, September 12, 2013 6:50 AM

"Visualization is like books. There are different writing styles and categories, there are textbooks and there are novels, and they communicate ideas in different ways for varied purposes. "

Patrice Mitrano's curator insight, January 30, 2014 5:16 AM

De très nombreux exemples d'infographies, malheureusement pas toujours aboutis. A croiser avec d'autres infographies ou représentations sur des sujets identiques ou bien à rapprocher des données sources.

Sang Lee's curator insight, June 17, 2014 9:57 PM

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Data Visualization [Video Infographic]

As everyone is talking about curation, data visualization is nothing else but the visual cousin of the same trend... attempting again to help us make greater sense of the overwhelming amount of data we are swimming in.

Here is a great video infographic reminding us of what data visualization is all about.

Recommended. 


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Enterprise 2.0 and Innovation

A presentation about Enterprise 2.0 as innovation and driver of innovation in organizations by Oscar Berg at Acando...

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