Check out this interactive table for help in defining and differentiating various types of visualizations to best meet your needs. 

You will see that the table breaks visualization into six types:

data visualization

information visualization

concept visualization

strategy visualization

metaphor visualization

compound visualization

This tool is also useful in helping you determine which type of visualization is best for your needs. It asks you to consider whether the information you wish to visualize is:

simple 

complex or

quantitative