\u201cThe principal disadvantage of symbols is that we confuse them with
real\u00adity,\u201d as writer Alan Watts observes. One can easily get lost in the world
of digital media, making it difficult to imagine information that is not sym-
bolically encoded in words, pixels, or bytes. And yet the material origins and
manifestations of data matter. Without considering them, a fabricated data
set may be indistinguishable from an au\u00adthen\u00adtic one. As public discourse is
full of controversies around facts and counterfacts, the gaps between data
and the world become increasingly troubling. \u00ad These controversies often
revolve around how data \u00ad were generated and facts \u00ad were established\u2014something that traditional visualization methods \u00ad don\u2019t account for. Even in
less contested situations, reconciling a statistical model with personal expe-
rience is difficult. This is where some of the greatest challenges lie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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