The sheer size of data poses significant problems in all stages of the visualization pipeline, from offline pre-processing of simulation data, to interactive queries, to real-time rendering. Moreover, visualization data is often unstructured in nature, which further complicates its management and representation. The goal of this project is to develop techniques for reducing bandwidth requirements for large unstructured data, both explicitly, by making use of data compression, and implicitly, by optimizing the layout of the data for better locality and cache reuse.