Publications

DM Review Magazine -- January 2005 -- Richard Brath and Michael Peters

... One of the most obvious benefits of visualization is helping people see trends and anomalies in data, which can be particularly valuable in real-time environments. Visual techniques such as heat maps and tree maps, which help reveal patterns in homogenous data, were virtually unknown 10 years ago, but are used today in many places ranging from public Web sites to advanced trading applications.

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