TY  - JOUR
T1  - Towards General and Comprehensive Definition of Visualization and
Visualization Pipeline
AU - Eshtay, Mohammed AU - Alsayyed, Rizik AU - Sleit, Azzam 
JO  - Asian Journal of Information Technology
VL  - 16
IS  - 6
SP  - 527
EP  - 535
PY  - 2017
DA  - 2001/08/19
SN  - 1682-3915
DO  - ajit.2017.527.535
UR  - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=ajit.2017.527.535
KW  - Data visualization
KW  -interaction
KW  -interaction techniques
KW  -visualization
KW  -visualization definition
KW  -visualization pipelines
AB  - Recent lively advances in information technology, specifically in internet, social networks and big
data have highlighted the increasing importance in the field of visualization. The role of visualization as an
important mechanism for visualizing and analyzing multidimensional big data is more vital now. Despite, the
agreement on its importance in various fields, the concept of visualization and visualization pipeline need to
be defined clearly. In this study, we survey a collection of definitions of visualization each of which sees the
visualization from different perspectives and then, we propose set of guidelines that help in defining
visualization. In addition, we survey set of visualization pipelines to make the definition of visualization more
practical and we also propose a list of guidelines to improve the process of creating visualization pipelines.
Lastly, we listed different taxonomies of interaction techniques and then we mapped the interaction techniques
to the stages that suit them in the visualization pipeline.
ER  -