A SuperMinds 2014 Talk by Toni Verbeiren (iMinds - Stadius - KU Leuven) .Strong voices have argued that human perception often plays tricks on us and is thus not to be trusted. This lack of trust has resulted in an almost religious belief in numbers, data and models. Technology is there to feed our drive to generate more and more raw data. We do not yet know what to do with all this (big) data, yet we are convinced of its tremendous value. I make a case that it is high time to put the human back in the loop, using foremost visual perception as a key ingredient in data analysis, albeit in a way that will limit possible errors like finding spurious patterns.