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In the article, Lynching, Visualization, Visibility, the article talks about how data visualizations can help discover hidden trends that ultimately took place when these lynching occurred. Although the data collected was important, I genuinely believe the visualizations produced did not help with any new or essential trends that were deemed not discovered prior to the author’s research. Historically, I do not not think we need extra data visualizations in order to make it clear that lynchings were based on power, constantly promoted through white supremacy. The idea that people needed these researchers to confirm this fact through graphs and charts is evidently futile and redundant. The numerical data published by anti-lynching activists were essential to the prevention of this horrible act, but the theoretical data that these researchers are perpetuating does not find any functional use considering these conclusions were already arrived at. I agree with the statement RF provides when he says, “This same ignorance can be seen in our attitude towards police brutality.  While the federal government gathers no official records of police brutality, the records that do exist at the federal Justice Department are known to undercount these records.” I think that  data like police brutality should be numerically published because this type of information can actually provide knowledge that has the ability to culturally change this behavior.