Reaction: The eyes have it: A Task by Data Type Taxonomy for Information Visualizations

This paper tells about the various forms of data types. It talks about the visual information seeking mantra and hows the perception of visualization is complete due to it. There is well defined characterization of the practices in information visualization.

The author draws attention to history and extraction. It is interesting to see how seeing historical information on being analysed leads to better information visualization.

The authors view of taxonomy and tasks is very efficient in analyzing complex graphical visualizations.