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I think you misunderstood me.

You can, of course, do science with graphical tools.

For instance, excel is a "graphical tool", and a lot of scientists use it.

But you can't do science on the field the tool is solving.

So you can use excel for biology, but data science is trying to trying to experiment on the data technique itself.



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