information visualisation

Terms from Artificial Intelligence: humans at the heart of algorithms

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Information visualisation refers to techniques and systems that create largely visual (but also soemtimes aural or tactile) representations of information structures. A simple example is the use of histogram or pie chart to replace or offer an alterbatuve to a table of numbers.

Used in Chap. 21: page 359

Also known as visualising data

A plain stacked histogram – easy to discern overall trends and trends in the baseline category (apples), but other categories less clear

Dancing histograms add interaction – click on a category (bananas) to alter the baseline and make trends in that category easier to see.

Connected visualisations.