There are so many ways to visualize complex data AND understand it at the same time. However, this has been done for many years for complex data using diagrams.
A typical place this has done many times has been anatomy. These diagrams present the views from different viewpoints and these then create the understanding of the tissue or anatomy.
In today’s time, computers can present the complex data sets in such three dimensional detail that it helps understand it better. Rotate the image, zoom in and zoom out. This is amazingly wonderful to do.
This model is by Biodigital and acknowledgements to them for allowing us to see this and embedding on the website.
Try it with the model below of the skin to see how much of a difference it makes in understanding as opposed to the simple diagram that you see above.
Isn’t skin complex?