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SUMMARY:Pictures of data: methods of improving scientific illustration - M
 att Davis (MRC CBSU)
DTSTART:20131028T160000Z
DTEND:20131028T173000Z
UID:TALK46719@talks.cam.ac.uk
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 – I’m personally fond of Edward Tufte’s work (http://www.edwardt
 ufte.com/). I also took some useful hints from Allen\, Erhardt & Calhoun (
 2012). However\, since I’ll cover material from that paper in the lectur
 e there’s no need to read this beforehand. Instead\, I ask that before t
 he class they email me one figure/graph/picture that is important to their
  research. They should come to the class ready to describe: 1) what inform
 ation they take from the illustration\, (2) what they like about how this 
 information is communicated and (3) what might they do differently.\n\nRef
 erences:\n\nAllen\, E.A.\, Erhardt\, E.B. & Calhoun\, V.D. (2012) Data Vis
 ualization in the Neurosciences: Overcoming the Curse of Dimensionality. N
 euron\, 74(2)\, 603-8.
LOCATION:Lecture Theatre\, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences\, 15 Chaucer R
 oad\, Cambridge
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