 Help you identify themes and questions for the rest of your reporting  Identify outliers: good stories, or perhaps errors, in your data  Help you find typical examples  Show you holes in your reporting Visualizations also play multiple roles in publishing:  Illustrate a point made in a story in a more compelling way  Remove unnecessarily technical information from prose  Particularly when they are interactive and allow exploration, provide transparency about your reporting process to your readers VISUALIZATION
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