At one point in a past life I was in a PhD Applied Math program and one of the professors who was into computer graphics gave a lecture on data visualization. S

At one point in a past life I was in a PhD Applied Math program and one of the professors who was into computer graphics gave a lecture on data visualization. She encouraged us to pick artwork we like and run it through Adobe Kuler to get palettes, because there was no way we'd acquire a taste for colors and complete a PhD at the same time.