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Within the fields of Interaction Design and especially Information Visualization diagram-like constructions are used fairly often. I will leave it up to this community to define the exact characteristics that make a diagram, but expect that definition to include visual representations of abstract data entities and relationships; I also expect that clarity and ease of interpretation are among the goals for which many diagrams are created.
I have devoted my efforts toward making clear, comfortable representations of abstract data with a concentration on supporting very constrained domains of practice. As a result I believe I have found (and developed) techniques for both structuring and rendering certain kinds of abstract data, and that such techniques are sadly underutilized.
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Paley, W.B. (2008). Rich Data Representation: Sophisticated Visual Techniques for Ease and Clarity. In: Stapleton, G., Howse, J., Lee, J. (eds) Diagrammatic Representation and Inference. Diagrams 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5223. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-87730-1_2
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