Spatialization Methods: A Cartographic Research Agenda for Non-geographic Information Visualization
Spatialization Methods:
A Cartographic Research Agenda for Non-geographic Information
Visualization
GIScience
Information visualization
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Data
Structured Unstructured Semi structured
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<paper> <author> Skupin </author> <content> . . .
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