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Re:Banning exploration in my infovis class by joatmon-snoo on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @12:26AM (#14243956)
Strongly agree with the second point, that visualization is used not as a tool for understanding but for confirming, whereas it should be vice versa.

It reminds me of a thread on MathOverflow (the StackExchange for professional mathematicians) asking for proofs without words (which tends to fall in the category of "visual" proofs: the second most-voted answer is "because I think proof by picture is potentially dangerous, I'll present a link to the standard proof that 32.5 = 31.5". Link: https://mathoverflow.net/a/17347

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Re:Banning exploration in my infovis class by denzil_correa on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @03:20AM (#14244549)
The top rated comment reply to that the MathOverflow answer about "proof by picture" being dangerous.

> think it is just as easy to introduce some kind of logical gap in a written proof as in a graphical one.

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