Our world is a complex ecosystem of interdependent processes. Geoscientists collect individual datasets addressing hyperspecific questions, which seek to probe these deeply intertwined processes. Scientists are beginning to explore how investigating relationships between disciplines can foster richer and more holistic research, but visualization tools are conventionally designed to address hyperspecific, rather than holistic, analysis. Bridging the vast wealth of available data will require new tools. Visualization has the potential to support holistic cross-disciplinary analysis to understand the complex innerworkings of our world, but doing so requires a paradigm shift to understand how visualization might enable lines of inquiry transcending traditional disciplinary boundaries. We present challenges for visualization in fostering such holistic geoscience analyses.

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为地球科学启用横切可视化

我们的世界是一个由相互依赖的过程组成的复杂生态系统。地球科学家收集解决超具体问题的单个数据集，试图探索这些深度交织的过程。科学家们开始探索如何调查学科之间的关系可以促进更丰富和更全面的研究，但可视化工具通常旨在解决超具体的分析，而不是整体分析。弥合大量可用数据将需要新工具。可视化有可能支持全面的跨学科分析，以了解我们世界的复杂内部运作，但这样做需要范式转变，以了解可视化如何实现超越传统学科界限的探究。