This special issue aimed to publish work on multidisciplinary research areas spanning from Data Management and Mining to Information Visualization and Human-Computer Interaction.

This section presents how state-of-the-art approaches from data management and mining, information visualization, and human-computer interaction communities attempt to handle the challenges that …

In the context of data visualization and analytics, this report out-lines some of the challenges and emerging applications that arise in the Big Data era.

interactive scalability are also challenges of big data visualization. Visualizing every data point can lead to over-plotting and may overwhelm users’ perceptual and cognitive capacities; reducing the data thr

In this chapter, I will review the topic of data visualization and its appli-cations to big data in five major sections. First, I define data visualization and overview its emergence, function, and advantages in …

Five papers referred to the visualization of graph data, mainly focusing on the effective visualization of complex networks and big data graphs, such as summarized or 3D visualizations of graph networks.

Based on Big Data related literature, we identify the main visualization challenges and propose a novel technical approach to visualize Big Data based on the understandings of human perception and new …