four weeks, four different creative visualizations, and a collection of quantitative and qualitative data. Giorgia Lupi, author of Dear Data, begins by addressing the first main point of data being more accessible as we think. The ways we relate to data evolve rapidly, and visual design gives us the power to instantly reach places within ourselves without a language or culture barrier. It is becoming a revolution. Now that we are past peak infographics as she called them, or the first wave of data visualization that lives past the academic realm, we can begin the new wave of designing to connect numbers to what they ultimately stand for: knowledge, behaviors and people.