Building blocks for visualanalytics

Abstract

The enormous amount of data being generated every day is a major issue for organisations. Analysing it and taking decisions from it is a major concern. Visual analytics can be a solution to visualize the data and draw better conclusions from data which was otherwise not possible. Instead of reports and written documents, graphics can play an important role in interpreting results. Visual analytics is a much researched topic nowadays. It is a very emerging field. This paper focuses on this field and the major building blocks of visual analytics on which the concept of visual analytics relies. The three building blocks are namely information visualization, interaction techniques and data analysis.