ABSTRACT
Sir Francis Bacon, in Book II of his Novum Organum (The New Organon; 1620) states “Truth will sooner come out from error than from confusion.” This famous epithet describes the idea that we understand the world by imposing conceptual structure upon the confusion of data we receive. Our mistakes in doing so eventually lead us to a deeper understanding. Staying with the confusion will not, by itself, bring about new insights. Methods used at the heart of knowledge discovery and
11.1 Introduction ................................................................................................. 291 11.1.1 Why Is There a Need for Visually Led Exploration? .................... 293 11.1.2 Is a Visualization System That Differentfrom a Database
or a GIS? ........................................................................................ 295 11.1.3 Research to Date ............................................................................ 295
11.2 Techniques and Approaches for Exploratory Visualization .......................297 11.2.1 Visually Encoding Data .................................................................297 11.2.2 Visualization Techniques for Data Exploration .............................300
