Bret Victor has been a major protagonist of interactive visualization: http://worrydream.com/ http://worrydream.com/ "The Ladder of Abstraction" is close to th

Bret Victor has been a major protagonist of interactive visualization: http://worrydream.com/ http://worrydream.com/ "The Ladder of Abstraction" is close to this explicit document style, but if you're interested in the history and philosophy of interactive visualization, you can lose days on that site.