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Visualization Pipeline

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Visualization reference model

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The visualization pipeline is a general model for a typical structure of a visualization process, which has been abstracted from earlier works in visualization in the late 1980s [3], and then adapted and extended several times [1, 2,...]. Starting out from data to be visualized and a particular visualization task at hand, a number of steps are processed along the visualization pipeline, including data enhancement, visualization mapping, and rendering, to eventually achieve a visualization of the data with the purpose of serving the given visualization task through effectiveness, expressiveness, and appropriateness [4].

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Data visualization is a part of computer science which provides expressive visual representations of data – through the appropriate application of computer graphics, often also in an interactive form – with the intention to effectively aid specific user tasks, including the exploration, analysis, and...

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  1. Chi EH. A taxonomy of visualization techniques using the data state reference model. In: Proceedings of IEEE symposium on information visualization. 2000. p. 69–75.

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  1. University of Bergen, N-5020, Bergen, Norway

    Helwig Hauser

  2. University of Rostock, Albert-Einstein-Straße 21, Raum 308, 18051, Rostock, Germany

    Heidrun Schumann

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  1. Helwig Hauser
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  1. Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

    Ling Liu

  2. University of Waterloo School of Computer Science, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

    M. Tamer Özsu

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  1. Computer Science Department, University of Konstanz, Universitätsstraße 10, D-78457, Konstanz, Germany

    Daniel A. Keim

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Hauser, H., Schumann, H. (2016). Visualization Pipeline. In: Liu, L., Özsu, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-7993-3_1133-2

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