“Visualizations” or “Visualisations”—What's the difference?

Usage by country

Where each spelling is used

Of the 12 countries below, 4 prefer “visualizations” and 4 prefer “visualisations”. Usage levels are out of 100; the more common spelling in each country is in bold.

Usage level out of 100 (if available).
Country	visualizations	visualisations	Preference
United States	98	2	“visualizations”
United Kingdom	37	63	“visualisations”
India	87	13	“visualizations”
Philippines	100	0	“visualizations”
Canada	94	6	“visualizations”
Australia	41	59	“visualisations”
Liberia	0	0	Not enough data
Ireland	44	56	“visualisations”
New Zealand	42	58	“visualisations”
Jamaica	0	0	Not enough data
Trinidad & Tobago	0	0	Not enough data
Guyana	0	0	Not enough data

Usage

Examples in context

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

“visualizations”

…alternate nostril breathing, commonly include visualizations.
…Scope" - light show music visualizations.
…translating personal data into hand-drawn visualizations.
Other visualizations available with tool are scatter…
…build financial models, create data visualizations, and build custom benchmarks and
…video art, animation, creative data visualizations, projection mapping and participatory urban…
The Tantrika practitioner may use visualizations of deities, identifying with a…
…for games, movies, presentations, architectural visualizations and designs.
…help reveal layers and 3D visualizations of text in various media,…
…features such as playlists, audio visualizations, slideshows, weather forecasts reporting, and…

“visualisations”

…with tantric Mahayoga, with its visualisations of deities and mandals, and…
Simple visualisations like bar charts and pie…
His art is based on visualisations, as it were depictions of…
…world tree, either in their visualisations or in initiatory rites or…
…contributors and their writings or visualisations.
…studio system to enable real-time visualisations in a studio setting.
…be downloaded as publication ready visualisations or delimited text files.
Sophisticated Visualisations
…for the 2D and 3D visualisations of the puzzle.
…of fly-through or drive-through 3D visualisations.

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