Life-changing events rarely announce themselves as such when they make their appearance. Such was the case more than 20 years ago, when I received a fateful phone call. It was my old friend and former colleague, Steve Fienberg. He was the cofounder and coeditor of CHANCE, which at the time was in its third year of existence. He asked me if I would be willing to take over the writing of a column on graphic display that Alan Paller, the initial columnist, had dubbed “Visual Revelations.” I thought about it for a moment and said, “OK.”

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