The ability to graphically represent data and information, utilizing graphical elements, such as charts, graphs, and maps. The capacity to utilize data visualization tools and technologies.

Data visualization literacy has been defined as “the ability to confidently use a given data visualization to translate questions specified in the data domain into visual queries in the visual domain, as well as interpreting visual patterns in the visual domain as properties in the data domain” (Boy et al., 2014); “the ability and skill to read and interpret visually represented data in and to extract information from data visualizations” (Lee et al., 2017); and “the ability to make meaning from and interpret patterns, trends, and correlations in visual representations of data” (Börner et al., 2016).