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This article gathers and consolidates the issues involved in uncertainty relating to reasoning and analyzes how uncertainty visualizations can support cognitive and meta-cognitive processes. Uncertainty in data is paralleled by uncertainty in reasoning processes, and while uncertainty in data is starting to get some of the visualization research attention it deserves, the uncertainty in the reasoning process is thus far often overlooked. While concurring with the importance of incorporating data uncertainty visualizations, we suggest also developing closely integrated visualizations that provide support for uncertainty in reasoning.
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Zuk, T., Carpendale, S. (2007). Visualization of Uncertainty and Reasoning. In: Butz, A., Fisher, B., Krüger, A., Olivier, P., Owada, S. (eds) Smart Graphics. SG 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4569. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73214-3_15
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