[AlbertCory]

So disappointed :) I was hoping this was going to be a visualization OF bullshit, not a rant about bullshit visualizations.

All seriousness aside, Correll fails to realize that the layout, length, and organization of your text are also forms of visualization, and at those, he fails completely.

"It is my contention that many (most?) visualizations are bullshit in either the Frankfurt sense of attempting to persuade while being totally disconnected from notions of truths about the world, or in the Graeber sense of being created for no readily apparent purpose and to no real useful end."

So he's shown us some erudition by throwing in Frankfurt & Graeber. Whoopee. When he mentions Tufte, a pioneer and a giant in his field, he's dismissive.

All that said, there is some worthwhile stuff in here. He needs to study The Elements of Style, hire an editor, and reduce it to a readable three pages or so, single-column.

[pc86]

Have you ever read an academic paper? This is a pretty bog standard layout.

[AlbertCory]

Indeed I have.

Academic papers -- the gold standard for readability!

Said no one, ever.