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Why data visualisation is so important in the age of AI

Sponsored by , By 2026-04-08T11:00:00

An old graph showing England's Imports and exports from 1700 to 1782 by W. Playfair. The overall trend is upwards for both but there is a fall off after 1770. Exports are always higher than imports except for one year in the 1780s.

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Machines don’t need to draw charts and plots to work with data, but humans will still need datavis skills to work with machines.