Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
4 results found in Information Visualization.
- Chernoff Faces (Chernoff's Faces)
- A visualisation technique introduced by Herman Chernoff in 1973 that represents multivariate data by mapping each data variable to a facial feature — eye size, eye spacing, nose length, mouth curvatur…
- Cone Tree (Cone Trees, Cone Tree Visualization)
- A 3D or 2D information visualization technique for displaying hierarchical data structures, where child nodes are arranged in a cone or fan shape around their parent node. When a user selects a child,…
- Mind Map (Mind Mapping, Concept Map)
- A diagram that organises information radially around a central topic, with branches and sub-branches showing related ideas, supporting details, and their connections. Mind maps were popularised in the…
- Multivariate Data (Multivariate Dataset, High-Dimensional Data)
- Data in which each observation or sample has more than two measured variables (dimensions). Analysing multivariate data is a core task in statistics, science, and business intelligence, but presenting…