When we discussed the proposal for this special issue on business intelligence visualization, there was some concern regarding how it would t into CG&A’s scope. Depending on who’s involved in the discussion, business intelligence (or BI, as it’s lovingly called) has many de nitions, so some concern about scope creep could have been justi ed. At the same time, the term “BI” is used more often in industry than academia. So, there could have been a perceived risk of a lack of availability of scholarly articles to form a special issue, as well as an emphasis on overly domain-speci c applications. To better understand what we were getting into, you might want to consult Wikipedia to frame the space we considered. As of 5 August 2014, it featured this de nition:

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当我们讨论这个关于商业智能可视化的特刊的提案时，有人担心它会如何进入 CG&A 的范围。根据参与讨论的人员，商业智能（或 BI，因为它被亲切地称为）有许多定义，因此对范围蔓延的一些担忧是有道理的。同时，“BI”一词在工业界比学术界更常用。因此，可能存在缺乏学术文章以形成特刊的风险，以及过于强调特定领域的应用。为了更好地理解我们正在讨论的内容，您可能需要查阅维基百科来构建我们考虑的空间。截至 2014 年 8 月 5 日，它具有以下定义：