“an interesting recent academic paper, written by information visualization guru Chaomei Chen, discussing the Top 10 Unsolved Information Visualization Problems. ‘problem 7: aesthetics. the purpose of information visualization is the insights into data that it provides, not just pretty pictures. but what makes a picture pretty? what can we learn from making a pretty picture & enhancing the representation of insights? it%u2019s important, therefore, to understand how insights & aesthetics interact, & these two goals could sustain insightful & visually appealing information visualization.’ “