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Information Visualization is the scientific area concerning the organization and visualization of abstract data.
The term "information visualization" has been created at Xerox Parc in the 80s by a group of pioneers in this field.
The HCILab of University of Maryland did a lot of researches around it and they produced, in the early 90s, a lot of interesting projects.
Among them: FilmFinder, Piccolo, Jazz, TreeMaps, HomeFinder.