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Link round-up for December 2021
Antonia Hadjimichael has a blog post, “Five tips for creating visually appealing scientific posters.” It contains some material familiar to readers of the blog. It is always great to see ideas spread!
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The question of whether there can be rules to design, including data visualizations, is a vexed one. This thoughtful blog post suggests that there are come helpful steps you can use to help land on a good graph.
I think that many common dataviz design decisions can be codified as formal rules that can be followed by practitioners of any experience level to make the best possible design choice in any situation, without exception. The bad news is that these rules can’t be captured in simple “always/never” sentences... . The good news is that many of them can be captured in relatively simple decision trees.
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Matt Elliot anticipates and solves problems before anyone anyone can make something of it.
Best. Graph. Subtitle. Ever.
Hat tip to Michael Hoffman.
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Nuria Melisa Morales García has a Twitter thread about graphical abstracts. Much of which applies to posters.