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Data, Information, and Knowledge in Visualization
January/February 2009 (vol. 29 no. 1)
pp. 12-19
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Min Chen, David Ebert, Hans Hagen, Robert S. Laramee, Robert van Liere, Kwan-Liu Ma, William Ribarsky, Gerik Scheuermann, Deborah Silver, "Data, Information, and Knowledge in Visualization," IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, vol. 29, no. 1, pp. 12-19, January/February, 2009.
 
 
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@article{ 10.1109/MCG.2009.6,
author = {Min Chen and David Ebert and Hans Hagen and Robert S. Laramee and Robert van Liere and Kwan-Liu Ma and William Ribarsky and Gerik Scheuermann and Deborah Silver},
title = {Data, Information, and Knowledge in Visualization},
journal ={IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications},
volume = {29},
number = {1},
issn = {0272-1716},
year = {2009},
pages = {12-19},
doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MCG.2009.6},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
}
 
 
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TY - MGZN
JO - IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications
TI - Data, Information, and Knowledge in Visualization
IS - 1
SN - 0272-1716
SP12
EP19
EPD - 12-19
A1 - Min Chen,
A1 - David Ebert,
A1 - Hans Hagen,
A1 - Robert S. Laramee,
A1 - Robert van Liere,
A1 - Kwan-Liu Ma,
A1 - William Ribarsky,
A1 - Gerik Scheuermann,
A1 - Deborah Silver,
PY - 2009
KW - data
KW - information
KW - knowledge
KW - information-assisted visualization
KW - and knowledge-assisted visualization
VL - 29
JA - IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications
ER -
 
Min Chen, Swansea University
David Ebert, Purdue University
Hans Hagen, Technical University of Kaiserslautern
Robert S. Laramee, Swansea University
Robert van Liere, CWI, Amsterdam
Kwan-Liu Ma, University of California, Davis
William Ribarsky, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
Gerik Scheuermann, University of Leipzig
Deborah Silver, Rutgers University
This article proposes to help advance visualization technology from the interactive visualization of today to the knowledge-assisted visualization of tomorrow by defining data, information and knowledge in the context of visualization.

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Index Terms:
data, information, knowledge, information-assisted visualization, and knowledge-assisted visualization
Citation:
Min Chen, David Ebert, Hans Hagen, Robert S. Laramee, Robert van Liere, Kwan-Liu Ma, William Ribarsky, Gerik Scheuermann, Deborah Silver, "Data, Information, and Knowledge in Visualization," IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, vol. 29, no. 1, pp. 12-19, Jan.-Feb. 2009, doi:10.1109/MCG.2009.6
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