“Visualizing just about anything” isn’t helpful if you want to learn from the visualization, though. (c.f the /r/dataisbeautiful subreddit nowadays: https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/top/?sort=top&t=mon...)

That’s not to say that a purely artistic data visualization has no value, but it’s not academic. (I admit I am guilty of that at times)