Front matter
preface
When I was in college deciding what I wanted to be when I grew up, I had no idea that data visualization was even a thing. It wasn’t yet a major or a discipline, and it certainly wasn’t something to which young minds might aspire. I loved the beauty of outer space, and it turned out I was pretty darn good at math, so I decided to pursue physics to study the makeup of the universe.
For those who might not know, physics is really hard, and you basically can’t do physics as a career unless you get a PhD. After spending 25 years as an A student, I landed squarely on academic probation after my very first term of graduate school, with two Cs and a C- in my three classes.
Thus began a bit of an existential crisis, and after two ...
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