Foundational principles from scholars such as Tufte and Bertins have helped influence data visualization over the years from a presentation perspective, but sof

Foundational principles from scholars such as Tufte and Bertins have helped influence data visualization over the years from a presentation perspective, but software improvements, such as D3.js, have tremendously assisted in the implementation piece of data visualization. Further, computer improvements and the advent of languages like R and Python have also allowed us to clean, process, and present a much greater volume of data than could have been achieved in the 80s and 90s.