The Challenge for InfoVis*

• How do you get from “Visualization is good” to “Here is a good visualization”?

• George Robertson, InfoVis98 Challenge

  • Do our visualizations work?
  • How do we find out?
  • Test visualization for usability!

• “And, of course, we will test this for usability” syndrome

* Information visualization is a process of transforming data and information that are

not inherently spatial into a visual form allowing the user to observe and understand

the information.

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