Why has information visualization become a centerpiece in business intelligence and analytics? Is there a difference between information visualization and visual analytics?

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Explanation:

Information visualization helps in making and distributing  business information that are profitable and this is the reason why it has  become a centerpiece in business intelligence and analytics. It has also become very important in rapidly understanding difficult information.

Information visualization lays emphasis on data that is abstract, which is, data with no agreed-upon depiction. Examples of this are the financial data, statistics and text. Visual analytics, on its own, lays emphasis on analytical reasoning about data and then puts together the computational analysis techniques with interactive visualization.