Preface

Clinical data is easier to understand when presented in a visual format. The human brain allocates a large percentage of its resources to take in and process visual information rapidly. Pattern recognition is key to human survival, and we can rapidly and accurately make sense of complex visual information to make decisions. We can make judgments on visual data even when we are not focused on the task explicitly.

In comparison to this remarkable ability developed through sheer necessity for survival, the remembering and processing of numeric data in raw tabular firm requires the explicit and intentional involvement of the cerebral cortex. The human brain is relatively slow in absorbing pure numbers, and remarkably poor in remembering more ...

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