Beyond the Anecdotes

Does this stuff really work?  Ask that question to people in the visualization space and you’ll likely get a lot of great stories about an event or meeting or personal encounter where one visualization approach or another radically improved an outcome.    That’s great, but where’s the solid research?  Over the last 6 months I’ve gone on an exhaustive search beyond the anecdote for any research related to visualization.  I’ve talked to industry experts and professors, searched databases, and read thousands of pages of academic research.  One of the most prolific and interesting researchers of our day is Martin Eppler, researcher and [...]