Frontier of Information Visualization and Visual Analytics in 2016

Visualization has evolved into a flourishing research field in recent 30 years. There are substantial visualization methodologies and applications published every year. Most of literature surveys focus on reviewing the state-of-art techniques in a certain direction in-depth. In this work, we conduct a cross-section survey by taking all the latest literatures as a whole, to obtain insights into the ecology of Information Visualization and Visual Analytics field in 2016. Center around 70-related publications in the IEEE VIS, we perform a mixed quantitative and qualitative analysis to report the current research progress, including statistical overview as well as detailed research topics.Graphical Abstract

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