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Visualization Pipeline

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Visualization reference model

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The visualization pipeline is a general model for a typical structure of a visualization process, which has been abstracted from earlier works in visualization in the late 1980s [3], and then adapted and extended several times [1, 2,...]. Starting out from data to be visualized and a particular visualization task at hand, a number of steps are processed along the visualization pipeline, including data enhancement, visualization mapping, and rendering, to eventually achieve a visualization of the data with the purpose of serving the given visualization task through effectiveness, expressiveness, and appropriateness [4].

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Data visualization is a part of computer science which provides expressive visual representations of data – through the appropriate application of computer graphics, often also in an interactive form – with the intention to effectively aid specific user tasks, including the exploration, analysis, and...

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  1. University of Bergen, N-5020, Bergen, Norway

    Helwig Hauser Prof.

  2. University of Rostock, Albert-Einstein-Straße 21, Raum 308, 18051, Rostock, Germany

    Heidrun Schumann Prof.

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  1. College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, 266 Ferst Drive, 30332-0765, Atlanta, GA, USA

    LING LIU (Professor) (Professor)

  2. Database Research Group David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue West, N2L 3G1, Waterloo, ON, Canada

    M. TAMER ÖZSU (Professor and Director, University Research Chair) (Professor and Director, University Research Chair)

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Hauser, H., Schumann, H. (2009). Visualization Pipeline. In: LIU, L., ÖZSU, M.T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-39940-9_1133

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