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• Multimedia production specialists/artists
working on creative development and pro-
duction of visual presentations for college,
company, or other programs;
videogame rental chains, corporations of-
fering video streaming over the Internet,
waste removal companies, as well as bank-
ing services need visualizations informing
about customer activities;
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Interactive web designers and web devel-
opers create websites and build application
user interfaces to create and maintain com-
pany, brand, or school identity;
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Instructional designers maximize efficien-
cy and appeal of learning and teaching by
creating visual materials that lower cogni-
tive load and transform traditional courses
to interactive modes. They visualize on-
site and online curricular content for e-
learning, assist in staff development, work
as digital technology developers and con-
sultants, educational game designers, in-
structional strategists (using data mining),
developers and editors of motion graphics
and visuals. Visualization techniques help
them integrate technology into curriculum
and create web-based multimedia instruc-
tional materials.
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Visual mining and data analysts find and
integrate the data they need to analyze,
integrate educational tools, scientific data
interfaces, databases, data graphics, and
other visualization tools to create user in-
terface design, cross-platform browsers,
software, and interactive web-based appli-
cations. An analyst can present and share
gained insights online using interactive
visualizations;
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Consultants for the humanities and social
sciences work, for example, as behavior
analysts and convey information visualized
in laymen's terms when converse with cli-
ents effectively;
5.5. Well-Known Examples
of Visualization that Helped
Make Progress in Science
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Visual perception and visual communi-
cation experts develop visual signage for
clients, consult client as portfolio analysts,
and conceptualize user interfaces;
Events and abstract ideas have been visualized
from the very beginning of human history, starting
from cave paintings and aborigine sand painting.
Ancient maps of the sky, earth, and oceans visu-
alized knowledge of the day. A digital artist and
information designer Martin Wattenberg (2005)
indicated that some of the biggest scientific
discoveries have hinged on the turning data into
pictures and collected some examples of early
visualizations:
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Knowledge management professionals ap-
ply visualization techniques to work on
business development (insurance and fi-
nancial services, investment and produc-
tion companies and corporations);
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Enterprise marketing specialists design vi-
sual communication essential in the com-
petitive enterprise-marketing environment,
train and coach in applying visual commu-
nication tools to improve productivity;
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The visual proof of the Pythagorean theo-
rem is one of the oldest visual explanations
in mathematics (e.g., http://en.wikipedia.
org/wiki/Pythagorean_theorem);
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Visual analysts develop interactive visual-
ization tools, often designed from the users'
point of view, to support digital workflow
for creative development, marketing, and
improve speed, visibility, and cooperation;
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In1869 Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev
applied a grid-like, tabular display of
chemical elements. He thus created a
simple metaphor of known data that made
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Designers for services visualization. For
example, services such as home video and
