Open AccessUma introdução à visualização de informações
Author(s) -
Hugo Alexandre Dantas do Nascimento,
Cristiane B. R. Ferreira
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
visualidades
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2317-6784
pISSN - 1679-6748
DOI - 10.5216/vis.v9i2.19844
Subject(s) - computer science , visualization , information visualization , presentation (obstetrics) , field (mathematics) , data science , scientific visualization , data presentation , data visualization , information retrieval , data mining , documentation , medicine , mathematics , pure mathematics , radiology , programming language
Information Visualization is an emerging scientific field that studies ways of presenting abstract data visually, so that information about that data can be better understood or even discovered. This paper discusses several aspects regarding the visual presentation of data and introduces well known and effective techniques for information visualization. The techniques presented here have applications in many scientific fields. The paper also discusses some of the modern challenges in the Information Visualization area