Visualization

• Data Visualization: A Practical Introduction A data visualization-centric approach to learning R. Also has some great discussions on what makes a plot good or bad (channeling a fair amount of Tufte in the process)

• Fundamentals of Data Visualization

• A relatively succinct read on graphics design and thinking about how to plot things From an R-focused tutorial, also linked above.

• Aggregation of many Points of View columns from Nature

• Stephen Few’s site Stephen Few thinks a lot about data presentation, and provides many examples of fixing not-so-great plots. See in particular the “Examples” section and the bottom of the “Library” section which has a large amount of PDF articles he’s written.

• Friends don’t let friends make bad graphs is a very clear, succinct set of examples showing how to avoid various pitfalls that, unfortunately, show up in published papers all the time.

Todo

Visualization topics needed:

• genome browser screenshots

• inkscape

• Tufte-isms (chartjunk; data to ink ratio)

• why not pie charts

• colormaps (jet vs viridis)

• colorblindness