Synonyms
Visualization reference model
Definition
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].
Key Points
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 presentation...
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Recommended Reading
Chi EH. A taxonomy of visualization techniques using the data state reference model. In: Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization; 2000. p. 69–75.
dos Santos S, Brodlie K. Gaining understanding of multivariate and multidimensional data through visualization. Comput Graph. 2004;28(3):311–25.
Haber RB, McNabb DA. Visualization idioms: a conceptual model for scientific visualization systems. In: Nielson GM, Shriver B, Rosenblum LJ, editors. Visualization in scientific computing. Washington, DC: IEEE Computer Society; 1990. p. 74–93.
Schumann H, Müller W. Visualisierung – Grundlagen und allgemeine Methoden (in German). Berlin: Springer; 2000.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Section Editor information
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2018 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature
About this entry
Cite this entry
Hauser, H., Schumann, H. (2018). Visualization Pipeline. In: Liu, L., Özsu, M.T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8265-9_1133
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8265-9_1133
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, New York, NY
Print ISBN: 978-1-4614-8266-6
Online ISBN: 978-1-4614-8265-9
eBook Packages: Computer ScienceReference Module Computer Science and Engineering