I don’t think you would have any difficulty convincing people in the know that Information Visualization is as much art as it is science. Creativity Online emphasizes the point by talking about “Information Beautification”, or how graphic design influences data visualization.
As unwieldy as this accumulation of numbers, texts and facts might seem, the growing field of information visualization—infoviz, for short—has helped to clarify, and often, beautify, the clutter. With infoviz, the once murky cloud becomes meaningful through images, charts and interactive graphics.
The article also contains some interesting comments from the people behind VisualComplexity.
