The unique vision and interdisciplinarity of KAUST make it the most exciting place for research on visually understanding massive data, whether from neuroscience, materials science, computational fluid dynamics, mathematical physics, neural networks, or other areas. My research is in visualization, and few have said it as well as John Tukey: "The greatest value of a picture is when it forces us to notice what we never expected to see." (Exploratory Data Analysis, 1977)