Mike and I have been on this beat for quite a while and are happy to see this getting coverage. The basic proposition is that dashboards, histograms, network visualization, etc. allow the end user to more effectively identify the relevant data/information. Here are a few examples of work we have undertaken:
3D Hi-Def Visualization of the Structure in the Citation Network of the United States Supreme Court
Legal Language Explorer (Visualizing the n-gram space)