We have witnessed the rapid development of the information technology during the last decade. On one side, processing and stocking capacity of digital devices is increasing constantly thanks to advances in construction methods. On the other side, the interaction between these powerful devices has been made possible through networking technology. As a natural consequence of these progresses, the volume of the data generated in different applications has grown with an unprecedented rate. Consequently, it is becoming increasingly harder for internet users to find items and content matching their needs. Henceforth, we are confronted with new challenges to efficiently process and represent the huge mass of data at our disposal. This thesis is centered around the two axes of recommending relevant content and its proper visualization. The role of the recommender systems is to help users in the process of decision making to find items with relevant content and satisfactory quality among the large set of alternatives existing in the Web. On the other hand, the adequate representation of the processed data is central both for increasing its utility to the end-user and for designing efficient analysis tools. In this presentation, the prevalent approaches to recommender systems and the principal techniques for visualization of data in the form of graphs are discussed. Furthermore, it is shown how some of the same techniques applied to recommender systems can be modified to consider visualization requirements.
