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