If you own a smartphone, you probably receive a notification about your phone’s weekly usage. If you open that notification, you will see a dashboard that shows usage graphs for your apps. At work, your organization may track sales, growth, and forecast in a colorful summary with a chart or two for you to report on your performance.
When monitoring your financial spending, your banking app most likely shows you a pie chart with your monthly charges segmented into ample categories. And your HR information system most likely shows a graph-based breakdown of your paycheck with all the payments and deductions. We are so used to data being everywhere that visualizations have become a norm in our interactions with technology.