Good Paper Good Graphics
Scientific Data Visualization
Good papers need good graphics
Science is about communication. Communicating your ideas, your hypothesis, your data, your results and discoveries. Writing a paper is the most common way to communicate with the scientific community. However, writing a paper is not only about a catchy title and a well written manuscript. Good papers need good graphics. The figures in your paper play an important role in explaining your data and guiding the reader through your story, but more importantly they attract your audience’s attention, let them engage with it, and can be distributed to others.
This workshop is aimed at scientists (PhD students, postdocs, and everyone who is interested) who have already worked on figures or will have to prepare figures soon. This workshop will give them a guideline to set up paper-ready figures from scratch. No previous knowledge about graphic programs is required.
Divided into two parts, this workshop will first provide you with the theoretical understanding of how design works and secondly how to incorporate these principles into the visualisation of your own scientific data. We will discuss how design is perceived and which of its mechanisms we can and should use to visualise our data and which we should avoid. We will talk about how to communicate the story of a paper accurately and effectively using attractive figures. We will learn some basic principles of design and data visualization and will then see the application of these principles in examples showing best- and worst-case data visualizations, so that you get a concrete idea of the pitfalls to avoid. Finally, we will work together on your own figures to make them simpler, clearer and more beautiful.
Combine workshops
This workshop can be combined with the workshops listed below to provide a complete set of skills to understand the technical and theoretical concepts of graphics and the application into illustrations for articles or complete posters.
