Visual analysis is pragmatic, not just "pretty"

So many of us who feel drawn to visual analysis can't understand why everyone can't see the value. "Pretty pictures," the skeptics mutter. On Eager Eyes, Robert Kosara makes important points that I haven't seen before.

Toward the end of his post he writes, "We need a new term." He rejects the aged and indefinite "visualization" and the baggage-laden "vis…