Data visualisation: Seeing the full picture

First of all I would like to say that 7 years of scientific training have almost rendered me unable to write in the first person, so please be patient with the following and I will do my best to leave out the P-values. Ironically I would like to write about data visualisation without presenting any graphs to you, this may be a challenge as I can already feel myself tempted to reach for the mouse to open my stats package. This topic might at first seem a tad on the academic side but the truth is