I came across this on Friday: https://medium.com/ssense-tech/building-the-data-science-dream-s-81892a56848f https://medium.com/ssense-tech/building-the-data-sci

I came across this on Friday: https://medium.com/ssense-tech/building-the-data-science-dream-s-81892a56848f https://medium.com/ssense-tech/building-the-data-science-dre... Despite the title, it's mostly an essay on why visualization and presentation are critical to any statistical treatment. I think it's one of those difficult skill combinations. You want someone extremely well-versed in statistics, plus someone capable of giving a damn about accurate presentation, plus someone with the UX intuition to make the correct choices to make something readable without sacrificing accuracy and important nuances. And if that "someone" is actually two people, you run the risk of telephone misunderstandings as work passes between them. Which is a tall order. Made taller by the (as you note) different kinds of audiences: simply ignorant, aggressively biased, rushed, etc.