Hi Ellie I like your perspective, and I'm gnueienly curious to hear more about what you think on the use of color being perhaps less effective than a black and white grid or chart. I see those comments a lot (but usually not by someone as polite and reasonable as you are), and I've always wondered about this. Some people feel very adamant that the use of color and elaborate visuals takes away or distracts from the message (and I certainly see how it can) but I feel pretty strongly, at least for me personally, that the use of color and good design is what draws me in to engage with the data/information in the first place, while I would tend to look at a long article/massive excel sheet and have a shorter attention span with it unless the topic was naturally interesting to me. Are there some learning types that gnueienly do better with something in black and white or plain text (other than the obvious benefit of readability of text vs. unreadable neon colors or something like that)? Because some people demand that the information is done on a black and white grid and they seem to be pounding their fist on the desk and spitting up bile when they do it. I personally wonder if the backlash is more of a lipstick on a pig type response where people (and this is indeed a good thing in some cases, as Nathan mentioned, it shows that people are getting more comfortable looking at and criticizing data) look at the prettifying as an attempt to overcompensate for the lack of integrity in the data (or perhaps some less malicious version of that scenario).