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I have a feeling that for the coming year or so, these visualizations will be overused in much the same way animated web site intros were in the late 90's. Beca
by sopooneo 14y ago
I have a feeling that for the coming year or so, these visualizations will be overused in much the same way animated web site intros were in the late 90's. Because right now they are still new enough that the casual viewer will inevitably be impressed by their pretty colors, even if they do not particularly clarify any information. I suspect a slight backlash by late 2013, then a convergence towards legitimate use thereafter.
- chrisamiller 14y agoThey're already overused in genome biology. They do a beautiful job of representing interchromosomal rearrangements in cancer, but don't actually convey a whole lot of information.
- jamesjporter 14y agoYes! I hate when people have a figure of some crazy bioinformatics they did that doesn't actually convey any information to me as a reader.
- tmcw 14y agoIt could have been a wordle. Just imagine. It could have been a wordle.