“Visualization” or “Visualisation”—What's the difference?

Usage by country

Where each spelling is used

Of the 12 countries below, 7 prefer “visualization” and 3 prefer “visualisation”. Usage levels are out of 100; the more common spelling in each country is in bold.

Usage level out of 100 (if available).
Country	visualization	visualisation	Preference
United States	98	2	“visualization”
United Kingdom	45	55	“visualisation”
India	82	18	“visualization”
Philippines	97	3	“visualization”
Canada	86	14	“visualization”
Australia	43	57	“visualisation”
Liberia	0	0	Not enough data
Ireland	56	44	“visualization”
New Zealand	48	52	“visualisation”
Jamaica	100	0	“visualization”
Trinidad & Tobago	100	0	“visualization”
Guyana	0	0	Not enough data

Usage

Examples in context

Real sentences for each spelling. Hover an example to copy it.

“visualization”

Schlieren flow visualization is based on the deflection…
…general anesthesia, but allows thorough visualization of the synovial membrane and…
As an alternative visualization, consider the points X, OL…
…is specialized in Architectural 3D Visualization.
…ChainerUI is a management and visualization tool.
…through 2012, highlighting her scientific visualization work which captured elementary physics…
…that it allows for "concurrent visualization" of data, which enables scientists…
…the Shakti Gawain book Creative Visualization which had abetted the singer's…
…published his climate spiral data visualization graphic, which was widely reported…
…on the formal description and visualization of existing dependencies.

“visualisation”

…the development of integration and visualisation tools for interpretation of Copy…
…shan is a series of visualisation and recitation exercises, derived from…
The visualisation of the theme song was…
…is an open source (GPL) visualisation tool for SPH simulations
…X in 1997 ('Staging and Visualisation - Aesthetic and religious experience…
…provided similar data entry and visualisation of time series data (i.e.
Background Oriented schlieren for flow visualisation in hypersonic impulse facilities
…and used for geological data visualisation, interpretation and 3D geologic modelling.
…Mesh models, are useful for visualisation, for some CAM (i.e., machining),…
…of free tools for conversion, visualisation and validation of SDMX, as…

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