Visualization Strategy and Critique Overview Use this skill when the hardest problem is not rendering marks. The hardest problem is deciding what evidence to show, what comparisons matter, what the audience must understand, how the surface should be composed, and which visual form makes that reasoning easiest. Treat Tufte, Bertin, Cleveland and McGill, Tukey, Munzner, Few, Cairo, Ware, Shneiderman, Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic, Amanda Cox, Mike Bostock, and Jen Christiansen as working lenses. Use them to make decisions, not to decorate explanations. Default assumption: the best interface is largel…