#Data

Visualization is the art of cramming implicit chaos into every conceivable chart or graph, thereby blaming one’s own incompetence on the elegance of design. More praise is lavished on those who can colorfully segment pie slices than on those who read between the numbers. It is nothing more than alchemy that sells the illusion of understanding rather than revealing any true essence. The wall-spanning flowcharts in meeting rooms seem to tidy up disorder only to spawn further confusion. In the end, no one bothers to question the real meaning of the diagrams, content to murmur, "It's visualized, so it's fine."