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Beauty as resistance - Good visualization design is an act of liberation by Alberto Cairo

Good visualization tells the reader what the collected data is saying it creates a little place in an otherwise confusing space.

Truth and liberty are entwined in a self-reinforcing loop. When we design a good visualization we aren’t just conveying our best understanding of a truth; by sharing our contemplation of that truth, we’re also making ourselves and our readers freer.

Data science, statistics, machine learning is creative work its beauty lies in making visible what lies latent in the world.

Work harder, protect others, do good, and create beauty. Camus inspires those words. Your work matters; you matter. Doing ethical, beautiful work—visualization work, or any other creative work—and putting it out there for others to learn, enjoy, and inform themselves to live better lives, imbues a meaningless world with meaning. Any expression of beauty is a rebellion against darkness, a repudiation of ugliness, and an act of resistance against ignorance and malice.