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SUMMARY:Pictures of data: methods of improving scientific illustration - M
 att Davis (MRC CBSU)
DTSTART:20091026T160000Z
DTEND:20091026T173000Z
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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 - th
 ough looking at anything by Edward Tufte is helpful  (http://www.edwardtuf
 te.com/). Instead\, I ask that before the class they email me (matt.davis@
 mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk) one figure/graph/picture that is important to their res
 earch. They should come to the class ready to describe: 1) what informatio
 n they take from the illustration\, (2) what do they like about how this i
 nformation is communicated and (3) what might they do differently.\n
LOCATION:Seminar Room\, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences\, 15 Chaucer Road
 \, Cambridge
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