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Readings in Information Visualization

Using Vision to Think

Stuart Card, Ben Shneiderman and Jock MacKinlay

1999

288 pages

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Keywords

Critique and Design

Interactivity

Visual Design

This work is a collection of papers by various writers. Nearly all of them refer to pieces of working software whether they are at the prototype stage or are actually on the market.

Specific chapters offered some very useful vocabulary for grammar building. For example:

Visualization: The use of computer-supported, interactive, visual representations of data to amplify cognition

Information Visualization: The use of interactive, visual representations of abstract, nonphysically based data to amplify cognition. (7)