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Insight: The capacity to discern the true nature of a situation; The act or outcome of grasping the inward or hidden nature of things or of perceiving in an intuitive manner. —Merriam-Webster Recent visualization research literature has paid a good amount of attention to evaluating visualizations. For example, this trend was evident at the 2005 IEEE Visualization conference where many of the presentations included evaluation components. The conference provided some inspiring presentations that probed the philosophical boundaries of visualization and evaluation.Unfortunately, there were also a few too many Boolean usability studies that offered only two alternatives: either the users liked the visualization tool in question, or they did not. In between, there was a variet