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SUMMARY:Pictures of data: methods of improving scientific illustration - M
 att Davis (MRC CBSU)
DTSTART:20101101T160000Z
DTEND:20101101T173000Z
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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 infor
 mation without words. The first half of the presentation will focus on gra
 phs – 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 b
 ehind your graph. The second half of the presentation looks at other types
  of figures: time lines\, statistical maps and spatio-temporal data. We wi
 ll finish with a discussion of example figures provided by the students.\n
 \nThere’s very little formal reading that I would recommend to the stude
 nts – though looking at anything by Edward Tufte is helpful (http://www.
 edwardtufte.com/). Instead\, I ask that before the class they email me (ma
 tt.davis@mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk) one figure/graph/picture that is important to 
 their research. They should come to the class ready to describe: 1) what i
 nformation they take from the illustration\, (2) what do they like about h
 ow this information is communicated and (3) what might they do differently
 .
LOCATION:Seminar Room\, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences\, 15 Chaucer Road
 \, Cambridge
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