This means that we render dynamic, multi-modal phenomena as graphic depictions, be they technical visualizations, thought experiments, logic constructions or network graphs.
"I think visualization is going to be the key to the future," Dr. McGill said.
I love web and mobile development but also have a passion for information visualization, which I think is the perfect balance between front-end development and data analysis.
If you want to fully maximize the power of visualization, you have to think about visualizing as a meditative process where you focus on only positive outcomes.
"In some ways what the artist does is very much like what we in the sciences think of as visualization, data visualization," Ramesh said.
Do you think data visualization is entering a time when it's becoming a core communication tool?
Looking at the downhill ahead of me on the screen, I think this visualization might even prepare me for the rocky outdoors.
Also appeared in Readings in Information Visualization: Using Vision to Think, Written and Edited by S. K. Card, J.D. Mackinlay, and B. Sheiderman, Morgan Kaufman Publishers, 1999.
A verb-based approach to visualization also lets us think of it as a tool that can be used in many different projects; not only those whose results involve charts and graphs, or sticks and balls.
Managers may not think of visualization as a tool to support idea generation, but they use it to brainstorm all the time on whiteboards, on butcher paper, or, classically, on the back of a napkin.
