Seeing the Unseen: How WWII Strategists Invented Modern Data Visualization (and Wired the Digital Future)
If you think dashboards are a Silicon Valley invention, step into a 1943 map room. Pinboards lit with red string. Hand-drawn charts pulsing with inked arrows. Analysts racing the clock with grease pencils and probability tables. The stakes weren’t quarterly metrics—they were convoys, sorties, and lives. Yet the mindset will feel familiar to any modern…