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Introduction to Information Visualisation

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This is a short introduction to information visualisation, which is increasingly important in many fields as information expands faster than our ability to comprehend it. Visualisation makes data easier to understand through direct sensory experience (usually visual), as opposed to more linguistic/logical reasoning. This chapter examines reasons for using information visualisation both for professional data analysts and also end-users. It will also look at some of the history of visualisation (going back 4,500 years), classic examples of information visualisations, and some current challenges for visualisation research and practice. Design of effective visualisation requires an appreciation of human perceptual, cognitive and also organisational and social factors, and the chapter discusses some of these factors and the design issues and principles arising from them.

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  1. Talis, 43 Temple Row, Birmingham, B2 5LS, UK

    Alan Dix

  2. School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK

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  1. Department of Information Engineering, University of Padua, Via Gradenigo 6/a, 35131, Padua, Italy

    Maristella Agosti

  2. Department of Information Engineering, University of Padua, Via Gradenigo 6/a, 35131, Italy

    Nicola Ferro

  3. Center for the Evaluation of Language and Communication Technologies (CELCT), Via alla Cascata 56/c, 38123, Povo, TN, Italy

    Pamela Forner

  4. University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland, TechnoArk 3, 3960, Sierre, Switzerland

    Henning Müller

  5. Department of Computer, Control and Management, Engineering Antonio Ruberti, Sapienza University of Rome, Via Ariosto 25, 00185, Rome, Italy

    Giuseppe Santucci

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Dix, A. (2013). Introduction to Information Visualisation. In: Agosti, M., Ferro, N., Forner, P., Müller, H., Santucci, G. (eds) Information Retrieval Meets Information Visualization. PROMISE 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7757. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36415-0_1

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