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Science students need to develop the skills of artists

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In your 'Big data' issue, Felice Frankel and Rosalind Reid call for an “investment in visual communication training for young scientists” to prepare them for modern methods of data representation ('Distilling meaning from data' Nature 455, 30; 2008). But the problem goes deeper than that.

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