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Visualization transforms data into graphical forms to be represented on the computer display. Hence, visualization deals with both transformations and representations. Transformation is the process that converts data into graphical primitives. Representation is the data structures that are used to handle and store the various outputs of these processes.
Graphics is a very simple language. Its laws become self-evident when we recognize that the image is transformable, that it must be reordered, and that its transformations represent a visual form of information-processing.
Jacques Bertin [15, p. 183]
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Chi, E.H. (2002). Expressiveness of Data State Model. In: A Framework for Visualizing Information. The Springer International Series on HCI, vol 1. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0573-8_4
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