Infographics have not gone away. You can see one pretty much every day on the front page of the New York Times. You can see one at every subway station.<p>What hopefully <i>have</i> gone away are the crappy infographics of a few years ago, which were generally an attempt to present a slick graphic design rather than convey meaningful information.<p>Also, this sentence is pure drivel: &quot;Periscopic’s Kim Rees suggested that visualization could become a coding language.&quot;