A lot of work went into this. A "periodic table" of visualization methods for data, information, concepts, strategy, metaphors, process and structure.

Here’s a screen shot – be sure and visit the original if you’re interested – when you mouse over each cell, you get an example of the corresponding visualization method.

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I didn’t see any of the visualization techniques used by structure101 for visualizing software dependencies and architectural layers. It is more focused on business processes, though Data Flow (Df), Entity-relationship (E) and Flowchart (Fl) diagrams are there.

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