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Refers to an artefact created for the purpose of communicating a message from a specific set of information or data in a visual manner (e.g. images, diagrams, infographics, animations), or any techniques that can be used to create such artefacts.

Data visualization is the graphical representation of information and data. - reference: https://www.tableau.com/learn/articles/data-visualization

Information Visualization : The use of computer-supported, interactive visual representations of data to amplify cognition. - Card, Mackinlay Shneiderman ‘98

Any technique for creating images, diagrams, or animations to communicate a message. - Visualization (computer graphics). (25 May 2012). In Wikipedia. Retrieved May 31, 2012

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Good ways to handle precisely overlapping data points in a graph?

In an application, I have a graph of markers--either with or without connecting lines--in which it is possible to have data points, and therefore markers, that are at the exact same location, even if they represent different data sets. In the image…
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What are Good Techniques to Visualize Binary Differences?

I'm particularly interested in diff-based visualizations. Code diffs are the most straightforward and easy as they're used for a long time and have a lot of examples of 1, 2, and 3 pane views. For example, this two-pane view showing an addition:…
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Visualize time-series data

I have a lot of time-series data. I would like to visualize this data, so that I could spot patterns like the following: "About five days after event X, event Y is very likely to happen" or "A short burst in the frequency of event Z, makes it likely…
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Representing a network of product dependencies as a diagram

The company I work for builds solutions - these are the items we take to market. Solutions consist of programs (1-to-many) - these are repeatable projects, or 'recipes' that we piece together to make a solution. Programs consist of multiple…
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When to omit zero from numeric table presentation

Give a table of numeric data in which many cells contain zero, under what circumstances would it be appropriate or preferable to present the zero-value cells blank or otherwise obscured (eg. in lighter ink)? Assume it is explicit that the table…
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Best visual representation for monthly values

What kind of data visualizations do you use to show a binary state of a month? By "binary" i mean just two options for a month. Either "available" or "not available". The last vis on the example image would display that. But is this really the best…
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How to display hardware life expectancy?

For a web application I'm developing my manager has asked me to display the life expectancy of a hardware component. The component will according to the manufacturer handle at least 16 000 000 operations, and is after that in danger of breaking. I…
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How to handle overlapping elements?

I'm doing a very simple video editing solution. User has a timeline (horizontal 100px line) which represents start and end of the video. User can add overlay images and texts, and all of them appear on the timeline. The location and width represents…
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Commentary book on information architecture outside the Internet

I know there is no single correct answer to my question, so I would be grateful if mods could turn my question into community wiki. I’m looking for a book about information architecture in everyday life outside Internet. The books I’ve read so far…
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Visualization advice for mix of graph/hierarchical data

I have hierarchical data that looks like this: I need to come up with a way to display it with the requirements I'll list momentarily. It is not a tree because there can be cycles (ignore directed-ness of edges in the image). There are…
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Visualization / Chart for resource workload planning

I am looking for a good way to aid a service team head in assigning incoming tasks to his people. Tasks are scheduled for a certain week, not for exact days. Team members can take roughly 3-10 of this kind of tasks a week, and the tasks can vary in…
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How to show related data together in one diagram?

Let us have the following three sets of information Now I want to combine all of this data and show it all together. Telling it like a story. Giving inter-relations. Showing similarities in terms, concepts etc. to get the following (Note that…
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How do you handle long charts that span multiple pages?

I need to print several bar charts to PDF for some reporting requirements. One the of the issues I am certain to encounter is how to handle the display of very long charts that span multiple pages in the PDF. Some of the charts contain up to 500…
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Is it appropriate to use a donut chart to show a User's score?

I'm presenting my users with a test. When they reach the end of the test, I want to show their score in a donut chart like this (in this case, 80%): Note that there will be other information on screen like "Hey, you passed!" (so, for example, the…
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Graphing Uptime

I am trying to find a way to graph uptime. What is the traditional way to graph the uptime of a device? If the device provides an uptime statistic, how should that be used to graph it. I know how a constantly increasing number can be graphed, or how…
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