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SUMMARY:Pictures of data: methods of improving scientific illustration - M
 att Davis (MRC CBSU)
DTSTART:20121022T150000Z
DTEND:20121022T163000Z
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CONTACT:Mandy Carter
DESCRIPTION:As Napoleon said "A good sketch is better than a long speech".
  This presentation will talk about how to communicate scientific informati
 on without words. The first half of the presentation will focus on graphs 
 - what makes a good graph\, how to chose the style of graph (line\, bar\, 
 etc) to match your data and to include the statistical information behind 
 your graph. The second half of the presentation looks at other types of fi
 gures: time lines\, statistical maps and spatio-temporal data. We will fin
 ish with a discussion of example figures provided by the students.\n\nTher
 e's very little formal reading that I would recommend to the students - I'
 m personally fond of Edward Tufte's work (http://www.edwardtufte.com/). I 
 also took some useful hints from Allen\, Erhardt & Calhoun (2012). However
 \, since I'll cover material from that paper in the lecture there's no nee
 d to read this beforehand. Instead\, I ask that before the class they emai
 l me one figure/graph/picture that is important to their research. They sh
 ould come to the class ready to describe: 1) what information they take fr
 om the illustration\, (2) what they like about how this information is com
 municated and (3) what might they do differently.\n\nReferences:\n\nAllen\
 , E.A.\, Erhardt\, E.B. & Calhoun\, V.D. (2012) Data Visualization in the 
 Neurosciences: Overcoming the Curse of Dimensionality. Neuron\, 74(2)\, 60
 3-8.
LOCATION:Lecture Theatre\, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences\, 15 Chaucer R
 oad\, Cambridge
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