Data visualization

How it is used

Used both for the skill and for a single chart ('a visualization'). Often shortened to data viz or dataviz in speech. You create, design or present a visualization. British texts spell it 'visualisation'.

Example sentences

1. Good data visualization makes the drop in March obvious without any explanation.

2. She runs the company's internal training on data visualization.

Common collocations

• data visualization tool
• create a visualization
• interactive visualization
• data viz

Related terms

• dashboardA screen that shows the most important metrics and charts about a system in one place, so engineers can see its health at a glance.
• bar chartA chart that uses rectangular bars of different lengths to compare values across categories, such as sales by region or users by country.
• line chartA chart that connects data points with a line to show how a value changes over time, such as monthly revenue or daily sign-ups.

This word in other fields

The same English word can have a different meaning in another field:

• data visualization · Data Science & Analytics

More terms: Machine Learning and Data Processing

• artificial intelligence
• machine learning
• model
• dataset
• training data
• label
• train
• supervised learning
• neural network
• deep learning
• loss function
• overfitting