Information visualization 信息可视化
![Graphic representation of a minute fraction of the WWW, demonstrating hyperlinks](/Images/godic/202501/20/WorldWideWebAroundWikipedia0735.png")
![Partial map of the Internet early 2005, each line represents two IP addresses, and some delay between those two nodes.](/Images/godic/202501/20/Internet_map_10240736.jpg")
![Product Space Localization, intended to show the Economic Complexity of a given economy](/Images/godic/202501/20/ProductSpaceLocalization0736.png")
![Tree Map of Benin Exports (2009) by product category. The Product Exports Treemaps are one of the most recent applications of these kind of visualizations, developed by the Harvard-MIT Observatory of Economic Complexity](/Images/godic/202501/20/Benin_English0736.png")
Information visualization or information visualisation is the study of (interactive) visual representations of abstract data to reinforce human cognition. The abstract data include both numerical and non-numerical data, such as text and geographic information. However, information visualization differs from scientific visualization: "it’s infovis [information visualization] when the spatial representation is chosen, and it’s scivis [scientific visualization] when the spatial representation is given".