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Interactive Data Visualization

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Encyclopedia of Big Data

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Data visualization is a modern branch of descriptive statistics that involves the creation and study of the visual representation of data. It is the graphical display of abstract information for data analysis and communication purposes. Static data visualization offers only precomposed “views” of data. Interactive data visualization supports multiple static views in order to present a variety of perspectives on the same information. Important stories include “hidden” data, and interactive data visualization is the appropriate mean to discover, understand, and present these stories. In interactive data visualization there is a user input (a control of some aspect of the visual representation of information), and the changes made by the user must be incorporated into the visualization in a timely manner. They are based on existing sets of data, and obviously this subject is strongly related with the issue of big data. Data visualizations is the best method in order to...

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Further Reading

  • Few, S. (2013). Data visualization for human perception. In S. Mads & D. R. Friis (Eds.), The encyclopedia of human-computer interaction (2nd ed.). Aarhus: The Interaction Design Foundation. http://www.interaction-design.org/literature/book/the-encyclopedia-of-human-computer-interaction-2nd-ed/data-visualization-for-human-perception. Accessed 12 July 2016.

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  • Heer, J., Bostock, M., & Ogievetsky, V. (2010). A tour through the visualization zoo. Communications of the ACM, 53(6), 59–67.

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  • Knaffic, C. N. (2015). Storytelling with data: A data visualization guide for business professionals. Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons Inc.

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  • Murray, S. (2013). Interactive data visualization for the web. Sebastopol, CA: O’Reilly Media, Inc.

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  • Ward, M., Grinstein, G., & Keim, D. (2015). Interactive data visualization: Foundations, techniques, and applications. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group.

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  1. School of Journalism and Mass Communication, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

    Andreas Veglis

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  1. George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA

    Laurie A. Schintler

  2. George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA

    Connie L. McNeely

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Veglis, A. (2022). Interactive Data Visualization. In: Schintler, L.A., McNeely, C.L. (eds) Encyclopedia of Big Data. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32010-6_116

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