Abstract: Exemplary embodiments of the invention can provide computer-based systems and methods for exploring collections of documents through visual navigation. Data in a document collection can be more easily understood and explored when presented visually in infographic summaries. By interacting directly with these infographic summaries, a user can more intuitively sift through a collection to organize and locate documents based their properties, metadata, and textual information. Infographic summaries can be updated dynamically as a user selects infographic elements that automatically create document filters and redefine the current scope of displayed documents. User interactions with infographic summaries can be saved and run automatically against newly added documents, thereby classifying new documents without the need of further user interactions.