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Nature 455, 1175 (30 October 2008) | doi:10.1038/4551175b; Published online 29 October 2008

Open Innovation Challenges

Science students need to develop the skills of artists

Kenneth R. Jolls1

  1. Chemical and Biological Engineering, Iowa State University, 2114 Sweeney Hall, Ames, Iowa 50011-2230, USA
    Email: jolls@iastate.edu

In your 'Big data' issue, Felice Frankel and Rosalind Reid call for an "investment in visual communication training for young scientists" to prepare them for modern methods of data representation ('Distilling meaning from data' Nature 455, 30; 2008). But the problem goes deeper than that.

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