Ralph Lengler and Martin J Eppler have published an insightful table of Visualization Methods.
The Table is taken from the paper Towards A Periodic Table of Visualization Methods for Management
Lengler R., Eppler M. (2007). Towards A Periodic Table of Visualization Methods for Management. IASTED Proceedings of the Conference on Graphics and Visualization in Engineering (GVE 2007), Clearwater, Florida, USA.