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Visualization provides insight through images and can be considered as a collection of application specific mappings: \[ \text{Problem Domain}\to \text{Visual Range}. \] For the visualization of multivariate problems a multidimensional system of parallel coordinates is used which provides a one-to-one mapping be tween subsets of \(N\)-space and subsets of 2-space. The result is a rigorous methodology for doing and seeing \(N\)-dimensional geometry. In this way the display of datasets with \(N\) variables transforms the search for relations among \(p\leq N\) variables into a 2-D pattern recognition problem. This is the basis for the applications to visual data mining, and it is illustrated with a real dataset after an overview of the foundations. Then a collision avoidance algorithm for air traffic control, based on parallel coordinates, is demonstrated with real data. The special strength of \(\parallel\)-coords in modeling multivariate relations by means of hypersurfaces. The final example is such a model of the economy of a real country. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0927.00039].