Visualization's new tack: making sense of information

  • Authors:
  • N. Gershon;S. G. Eick

  • Affiliations:
  • Mitre Corp.;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Spectrum
  • Year:
  • 1995

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Abstract

People constantly deal with nonnumeric information that has no correspondence to actual physical space. The authors describe how vast abstract hierarchies, networks, and relationships within text-including the World Wide Web itself-demand a new way of designing visualization tools