CHAPTER 8
Appendices
Appendix A: Historical Overview and Current Trends in the Literature
Visuals are created for a multitude of purposes in many disciplines. Their development is intertwined with the different problems they attempt to address (Beniger & Robyn, 1978; Friendly & Denis, 2001), and their effects in society (Mitchell, 1994) and in organizations (Meyer et al., 2013). Consequently, literature about visuals has been mostly contextual and fragmented across scientific disciplines (e.g., medicine, astronomy, cartography, etc.).
However, in the last years, data visualization has established itself as a research field of its own. Since then, increasingly comprehensive historical accounts and an integrative and cross-disciplinary body of ...
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