# Visual Communication 22.-24.6.2021
###### tags: `June 2021`

### Visual Communication, Online course

### Contact
[e-mail]
Twitter: @helenajambor
Discord: Helena Jambor#5405

### Overview

| Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 |
| -------- | -------- | -------- |
| LIVE Welcome | LIVE Discussion Exercises | LIVE Discussion Exercises |
| HackMD | Unit 5-7 | LIVE Group work |
| Unit 1, upload HackMD | Exercise 5-7 | Individual work |
| Unit 2-4 | Upload | Hand-in before/after slide |

### Zoom
Topic: Visual Communication for Scientists
Time: Jun 22, 2021 01:00 PM Amsterdam, Berlin, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna

Join Zoom Meeting
https://tu-dresden.zoom.us/j/6086217671?pwd=R1ZsTTVZREdDNG02ZzZ6OTVPcmo4QT09

Meeting ID: 608 621 7671
Passcode: Precisi0n!

# Day 1
- Introduction, 15 min, live
- Exercise 1: Introduction: 15 min.
- Input lecture, 45 min, live
- Units 2-4, Flipped classroom with video lectures: 1,5 hours
- Exercise 2: Find a good viz/Bad viz: 30 min
- Exercises 3-4, 30 min +++

## Participants list:
*Please add your name here if you joined today*
1. Helena Decker
2. Tincy Simon
3. Rosario Astaburuaga
4. Jennifer Wiederspahn
5. Joanna Wollmann
6. Wanja Kassuhn
7. Katharina Schmidt
8. Viktoria Arndt
9. Maximilian Bäumler, third year PhD student at TU Dresden.
10. Louisa Kruetzfeldt
11. Sebastian Oehler
12. Moris Zahtila
13. Kathrin Meinhold
14. Aniruddh Das
15. Riyan Habeeb
16. Tobias Schramm, PhD student at the Chair of Automotive Engineering
17. Juliane Valtin
18. Michael Amponsah-Offeh
19. Satyam Raikwar PhD at Institute of Natural Materials Technology
20. Jitong Zhao
22. Josephine Görte
23. Claire Gallacher
24. Tzu-Ting Wei
25. Mohamed Abdullah
26. Max von Witzleben

## Exercise / Introduction
[here, example:]
I am Helena Jambor, got my PhD in biology EMBL/Heidelberg now merge my passion for science data and visualization as a data viz designer. I work at the Medical Clinic Dresden and I teach bioinformatics in Berlin. I love all kinds of information design, from data sketches, to multi-dimensional plots. I make visualizations in many ways: with Excel, googledocs, and R for charts; I use FIJI for images; Adobe illustrator/Powerpoints for figure assembly. I plan to learn Inkscape to move to open source version instead of Adobe and I want to learn D3 for webbased graphs!
* Michael: Do you also have bioinformatics and programming workshop for beginers as well?

Hi, I am Helena Decker, I am doing my PhD in Physical Chemistry and am almost finished. I mostly use Affinity Designer for figure assembly and design and Python for my data.
* Hi Helena, sounds great. So you have already a lot of experience with images and figures. I also use phyton :)
* Hi, another Helena! I have never head about affinity desinger, is that open source?
* No, but you only have to pay once and around christmas there was a special offer where you could get it for 20€. I used Inkscape before a bit and I like Affinity Designer a bit more. I think it is just in the middle between Adobe and Inksscape. You have to pay, but only once and I thought it was worth the price :)
* Moris: I also sometimes use Inkscape for several years now. Recently, I tried out Adobe software, I've got a discounted offer and I'm paying 20€/month for the Adobe Suite. So far, I've tried out InDesign and Illustrator is my next goal.
* Helena J: haha, I want to STOP with illustrator because of the cloud system and move into ikscape, you cannot recommend that?
* Moris: I'm also not that happy with the cloud because it affects the speed of my computer. I would totally recommend Inkscape, I think it's very powerful. I just think that Adobe software if more common in the industry and I wanted to familiarize with it.

Hi, I am Katharina, since october last year I am phd student at the *chair of measurement and sensor system technique* at TUD. My project is about *smart microscopy*, so I have to visualize optical setups, results from machine learning and also images, which I captured with my newly developed fancy microscope ;) To visualize my results I am using matlab for measurement data, phyton/tensorboard for ML stuff and inkscape for images and experimental setup overviews.
* Helena J: It will be part of the course, but ask me about image visualization, I will try to have a couple of slides for you on Friday!

Tincy Simon; I am a final year PhD student at Charite University, working on finishing my thesis.
* Hi hi

Hey, I'm Wanja Kassuhn. I studied bioinformatics and I am currently doing my PhD (in 3rd year) at Charité in integrative oncology. For visualization, I am mostly using R and Adobe tools.
* Fellow oncologist! In Dresden I am emplyed at the oncology clinic, haematology section!

Hi, I am Max, a PhD student in the 3rd year, working on 3D printing of regnerative implants with a focus on developing eardrum replacement membranes.
* Hi Max, so I guess you also visualize 3D structures. I would be interested to know how you do this? I am working with a new type of optical elements and want to design easy to understand 3D images of the components inside the elements.
* Hi Douglas(?) I mainly use solidworks or Blender for visualization. Especially Blender is very nice for this task as for this task as for this task as for this task as for this task as for this task as for this task as for this task as for this task as for this task as for this task as for this task as

Hi I am Aniruddh Das and I am a post-doc working in HZDR with a collaboration with TU Dresden. I work mainly with properties of metals.For data visualization I mainly use Excel, origin and powerpoint. I would like to know more about how to effectively show data in publications and in presentations.
1. helena Jambor: that is precisely what we cover in this course.. Welcome

Hi, I am Maximilian and I am doing my Phd in automotive engineering for three years now. My project is about the assessment of highly automated driving functions. For this, I am mostly using categorical data, which I also have to visualize using R (ggplot2) at the moment.
* Hi Maximilian nice to meet you.
* Hi :)

Hi! I'm Joanna, second year PhD student at TU Dresden, at the Institute of Lightweight Engineering and Polymer Technology (ILK), working with Excel, Inkscape, PowerPoint

Hi, I'm Viktoria, a PhD student from the TU Dresden. I'm working in the field of neuropsychology at the chair of addiction research for 1,5 years now. I work with Matlab, Excel, Powerpoint and SPSS for beahavioral data and SPM for neuroimaging.
* Moris: Hi Viktoria, that is very interesting. My research goal is to learn about people's behavior based on social media data. I'm looking for behavioral patterns in the data. For me, it is highly importan to understand what is behavio from the perspective of psychology.
* Hi Moris, that sounds really interesting! :nerd_face: I think it is really important to work interdisciplinary.

I'm Moris: I'm a PhD student at the Institute for Cartography at TU Dresden since 2019. My topic is related to visualization of patterns of social media data to help in space-related decision-making processes, e.g., in urban planning. Therefore, my research is an intersection of visual analytics and cartography.
* Helena Jabor: welcoime! I was not aware we had an institute for cartography! Cool, you guys are doign data visualizations since 2000 yerass, my first text book is thematische kartographie by Eduard Imhof!

Hello I am Claire and I just started my PhD in March this year working in the Leibniz Institut for Ecological Urban and Regional Development. Much of my work is using Geographical Information Systems so a lot of the visualisations I will do will be based on map visualisations and using the programs ArcGIS and QGIS. However, I am keen to learn more about the other possibilities for displaying data in a creative and effective way.
* Helena Jambor: I like Datawrapper for interactive maps, its for journalists who need a lot of data in maps..
* Moris: Arc Insights is also a tool where you can create interactive dashboards with maps and tables to explore the data and it offers easy-to-use data processing methods.

Hi all*, I'm Sebastian from *Fraunhofer IPMS-CNT* and I'm working on my PhD topic in electrical engineering since mid 2019. I'm doing my research in the field of *reactive ion etching* and *plasma physics*. For data processing I'm using Python and OriginLab, for visualization I also use Inkscape and Powerpoint. In my diploma I also used Latex (TikZ and Pgfplots).

Hey all, I am Jo(sephine) and I am finishing my PhD in July . I am working in the field of cancer research, more exactly in radiobiology. In my future career I want to work in science communication, which is why I was interested in this workshop. Throughout my PhD I used mostly GraphPad Prism and PowerPoint for data visualization. In my master's I used Inkscape as well. So all together I only uesd basic equipment :)
* [Hi Jo, nice to meet you! Did you use any cool PPP-plugin up to now?]
* *Hi - no, unfortunately no. I just used basic PP :)
* Thanks :
* [Hi Jo, did you plan to "visualize" your 3D Data with a 3D printer? (Max)]
* My 3D cell cultures? :) So the cell culture system we use is already 3D which is why I wouldn't need to print anything. Ah:)
* [Sorry my bad! I misread radiobiology with radiology]
* Haha no worries :)
* Hi! Rosario here, in my PhD I'm also trying to answer some radiobiological questions related to radioresistance of HNSCC. On which cancer are you focused on? and which type of data do you produce/analyse?
* Hey Rosario! Oh nice my group is also working with HNSCC but my tumor entity is pancreatic cancer and radioresistance. I focused on survival and to exploit molecular targetings to sensitize the cells to photon and proton irradiation
* Where exactly are you working, in which institution? :)

Hi, my name is Juliane, I am PhD student at the Leibniz-Institute of Polymer Research. I am working in the field of biomedical engineering. I don't have much experience with data visualisation and haven't decided for a program I want to use in future. At the moment, I work mostly with PowerPoint and GraphPad Prism. I am thinking about using inkscape in future.
* Hi Juliane, it is not about the data but more about your work - do you work with 3D models and cell culture?
* Hi, I work with blood and bacteria cells. So I have numerical data as well as many microscopy images. I am also developing a blood flow model and would like to create a scheme / graphical abstract to give a nice overview of my project.
* I see, nice! blood flow models are actually 3D! :) so good!
* I loved preparing graphical abstracts. I mainly used PowerPoint and also BioRender to do that!
* [Hi Juliane, greetings from the TFO :)(Max)]

Hi, I am Louisa, second year PhD student at Charité Berlin (CompCancer). I'm doing bioinformatics analyses as well as planning and anlysing wet lab experiments. I mainly use R and inkscape for creating Figures.
> [Hi Louisa, Nice to meet you!]

Hi all, I am Tobias and I am in my 3rd year of PhD studies. I am doing my PhD in automotive enginnering with the spezialization in suspenion optimization. I am mostly using Matlab and PowerPoint to create figures. It is often challenging to show much data in a few figures. I hope to learn something new here. :)
* Hi Tobi :) Cool, dass du auch da bist :)
* Hi Max :)

Hello I am Satyam Raikwar I am doing my PhD in Mechanical Engineering. I am in 4th year of my PhD.I am working on Field robots with their path planing and Navigation. I use MATLAB and Excel for data processing and visualization.
- Hi Satyam! I remember you from the GA-Workshop about effective reading. Nice to see you again!
Hello nice to see you again yes exaclty i remember you, we had workshop together on Efeective reading.
- :smile:
- (Y), Little Keyboard Diff. :P
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Hello! I am Riyan, presently in my secind year of PhD associated with Dresden Leibniz Graduate School. My main area focus is on urban water security. I mainly use excel and QGIS for data visualization purpose.

Hi, I'm Katie Meinhold, trying to finalse my Phd This year in tropical forestry... Got a job besides the PhD so need to learn how to make figures better in a fast way! Worked so far with the basic tools, Excel, SPSS, Powerpoint and thinkcell...
* Jenny: Hi Katie, tropical forestry? Wow, sounds very interesting! So are you doing field work as well?
* Before the c-word happened, yes ;) What's your background?
* I work in cancer research so no field trips for me ;) That's really cool that you got to do field work, any specific tropical forest or all of them?
* I focus on one tree, the baobab, and mainly work in Malawi and Kenya - but now it's just writing up! Cancer research is great though as well!!
* Hi Katie, Viktoria here. That sounds soooo interesting! :grinning_face_with_star_eyes:

Hi everyone, my name is Jenny and I'm a PhD student in CompCancer at Charité Berlin in my 2nd year. I'm doing both wet lab work and computational analysis of large datasets in the context of colorectal cancer research. My main tools are R, power point, illustrator and I recently started using BioRender.

Hi, I'm Cindy I'm a PhD student at CompCancer, Charite, while I am actually working at the Berlin Institute of Medical Systems Biology. I usually use R and python for scientific visualisation. My project is about predicting somatic mutations functionality in cancers using WGS, RNAseq, and pre-trained deep learning model.

Hello, I am Michael. A PhD student at the institute of physiology specialising in cardiovascular physiology. Work alot with histology images and hoping to learn new and easier data visualisation skills. I have been using the usual tools like excel and ppt.
* Hey Michael. I know that a lot of people use fiji to analyze images.
* Hey Yes, I use that as well. Thanks
* Helena: I already wrote someone else, I am prepping some slides for Friday on images, seems like there are several of you interested in that!
* Michael: That would be great. Please do let me know.

Hello everyone
I am Mohamed Abdulah.I am a PhD student at IFW Dresden. I am Egyptian and I did my Master degree in Physics in Egypt. Afterwards, I moved to Dresden to carry out my PhD in Li ion batteries. Beide battries, I am also interested in thermoelectric materials. I started my PhD work since 1.5 year ago.
* Helena: nice that you found your way to the HackMD!

Hello, I'm Rosario, I'm in the second year of the PhD at Charité Berlin (CompCancer graduate program). The work I do is a mixture between systems biology and bioinformatics, in the context of Cancer and Perturbation Biology, trying to answer specific questions about radiobiology. I analyze my data and produce plots in R, prepare slides and posters in Keynote, and prepare figures for papers in Illustrator. I like the graphic design part, and I would like to learn more.
* Hey, found you - so you are Berlin-based :) are you familiar with the DeGBS - german association of biological radiation research? (Josephine from above)
* Hi again! I've heard about it, I know Verena Jendrossek is involved and know her because she is also part of a collaborative group in which my project is part of (ZiSStrans: Zielstrukturen und Signalwege der Strahlenüberempfindlichkeit und -resistenz - Translationale Netzwerke). Now that you mentioned I checked the webpage and found a conference! Is not that easy to find radiobiological conferences, so many thanks!
* Yes, I know her as well! Happy, I could give you some input. There is also the DEGRO annual conference - it is more clinical but also biologists go there.

Hello everyone, i am Jitong Zhao. I am a PhD student at the Institute of Construction Materials of TU Dresden in the second year. I am working in the field of fiber reinforced cementitous materials. By far i mainly use basic tools like Excel, Powerpoint, Origin, or matlab to creat charts and figures.

## Exercise 1
Add homework as a slide here:
SLIDE MODE:
https://hackmd.io/@HelenaJambor/Sks0gOkqu

EDIT MODE:
https://hackmd.io/@HelenaJambor/Sks0gOkqu/edit

## Unit 2
Unit 2.1 Which chart for your data:
YOUTUBE https://youtu.be/43ijprohCvg
LOOM: https://www.loom.com/share/ed161bb78ec84e4884901db316a258ef

Unit 2.2 Which chart for your data
https://youtu.be/A5k1Ka72uR0
LOOM: https://www.loom.com/share/a0ac9422d4f74bec9b8dde1d8a038551

Exercises to pick a chart type: in the download section!

## Unit 3
Unit 3.1 Visualization more dimensions
https://youtu.be/Yx9vleI09QM
LOOM: https://www.loom.com/share/a84d9c90cb8347bd88217ed34a868e18

Unit 3.2 (More on) Visualization more dimensions
https://youtu.be/fqfz8EmnQn4
LOOM https://www.loom.com/share/3275def4a13a405eb13929b83596d479

Exercises refresher for charts: links in the exercise sheet!

## Unit 4
Unit 4.1 how not to lie with charts #1-5
https://youtu.be/XL3P-CJq6qY
LOOM https://www.loom.com/share/33bd1a59c6f7412d872f4688e7a4f756

Unit 4.2 how not to lie with charts #6-10
https://youtu.be/zUlLvjdlsqI
LOOM https://www.loom.com/share/3807e1280f8843ce978cc1a4d3ef8bd8

Exercises to identify misleading charts: in the download section!

## Download
*NOTE*: you do not have enough time to complete all exercises, pick those that you think you will benefit most from!

### Exercises 2-4 & slides:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/9bcttwdh7g02z8b/AACc-paXgkqW41gWJ-iV2F3Aa?dl=0

### Further reading materials:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/n1h7ahm1030ky0j/AACTMbmeqsrT3iRp-x_LeXLka?dl=0

## Feedback
I have further questions...
*

Positive/negative Feedback (Anything you liked or you feel was well explained, anything you missed or did't understand)
*

# Day 2
- 13:00 Good viz, Bad viz. Live discussion 1+ hour, joint room, breakout rooms.
- 14:30 Flipped classroom Units 5-7
- 16:40 Questions for Units 5,6,7
- Homework: Prep your slide for day 3

## Participants list: Please add your name here if you joined today
1. Michael Amponsah-Offeh
2. Katharina Schmidt
3. Josephine Görte
4. Maximilian Bäumler
5. Tzu-Ting Wei (Cindy)
6. Kathrin Meinhold
7. Louisa Krützfeldt
9. Max von Witzleben
11. Jitong Zhao
12. Satyam Raikwar
13. Mohamed Abdullah
14. Tobias Schramm
15. Sebastian Oehler
16. Wanja Kassuhn
17. Moris Zahtila
18. Jennifer Wiederspahn
19. Riyan Habeeb
20. Juliane Valtin
21. Viktoria Arndt
22. Aniruddh Das

8. Joanna Wollmann - not in breakoutroom
9. Claire Gallacher - not in breakoutroom

## Exercise 5.1
Each one of you should post in the discussion forum one abbreviation that you commonly use in your projects and that people in your area of expertise are familiar with; or: so you think!
Then: **reply to others** and guess what the abbvreviations stand for!

- Katharina (optical measurement systems): AO, SNR

- Josephine (biology, cancer research): CSCs
- I work in cancer and have no idea!
- me neither...
- Josephine: maybe already too specific, but waiting for more guesses
- I dont know it as well even so I am working with cells
Okay, I will tell you: cancer stem cells (CSCs)
- I am already confused with HSC and HSPC, took me a while.. (cancer biologist here)
- okay, what is HSC and HSPC?
- Hematopoietic stem cell (HSC) or Hematopoietic stem and progenitor cell (HSPC)
- cancer stem cells

- Aniruddh Das (material science): SEM
- serial electron microscopy?
- something like sleep (REM-sleep)? ah, no material science..
- standard error of the mean?
- scanning electron microscope
- I would also say scanning electron microscopy
- same here
- Yes scanning electron microscope. The REM-sleep angle was interesting. In German SEM becomes REM.
- scanning electron microscope

- Sebastian (plasma physics): a.u.
- is this an abbreviation for 'arbitrary unit'?
- yes
- is this also used for 'astronomical unit'?
- atomic unit?
- arbitrary unit

- Max vW.: DNA and SD
- Desoxyribonucleic acid and standard deviation
- I would say the same
- Yes and Yes ;)
- same same

- Joanna (sof robotic): SMA, DEA

- Wanja: HGSOC

- Juliane: FACS, LSM, and PBS
- --> FACS= special brand/ measuring technique for flow cytometry?
- fluorescence activated cell sorting (FACS)
- both are right :)
- -->LSM = Laser Scanning Microscope?
- If you know German you may think of LSM=Lebensrettende Sofortmaßnahme
- ok, this took me by surprise
- haha me too - I was also only familar with FACS in the lab
- haha, I never thought of the fact that "Lebenrettende Sofortmaßnahmen" have the same abbreviation. But yes, I meant laser scanning microscope
- Fluorescence-activated cell sorting, Phosphate-buffered saline

- Michael: CVDs, RAAS, MMPs
- Matrix metalloproteinases?
- Yep
- CVDs: chemical vapor depositions?
- No. Cardiovascular diseases (CVD)
- RAAS = Renin-Angiotensin-Aldosteron-System?
- Yep

- Moris: VGI
- I was about to look it up, but refrained - isn't it something with virtual reality?
- Actually no, even though, it can associate to it. Virtual reality is VR. A similar but not the same concept is augmented reality (AG or AR).

- Satyam Raikwar : (in automotive engineering) ADAS, LiDAR
- I guess LIDAR might be light detection and ranging
- Light Detection and Ranging
- Satyam - Yeah It's correct

- Cindy: eQTL (genetics)
-I should know this but don't..

- Mohamed:(batteries,thermoelectrics) EC, TEG
- EC = electric current?
- No. It is electrochemical
- TEG = Thermoelectric generator
- Yes. That it is correct

- Tobias: FL, FR, RL, RR (in automotive engineering)
- front left, front right, rear left, rear right?
- Yes. Too easy. :D
- never would have ever gotten that :)

- Tobias: SMS (test rig in automotive engineering)
- Smart Manufacturing Systems

- Jenny (cancer research): CRC, SNPs, CyTOF
* CRC: Colorectal Cancer i guess
- colonrecttal cancer, single nucletide polymorphism
- single nucleotide polymorphism

- Viktoria (neuropsychology): DLPFC, ERP
- solutions: Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex and Event-related potential

- Jitong (Civil engineering): FRC, FRP
- Fibre Reinforced Concrete, fibreglass reinforced plastic?
- FRC is correct, FRP is usually used for fiber reinforced polymer/plastic

- Riyan (urban planning) : NbS , UGI
- the Nb in NbS could mean neighborhood...? Maybe S for System? :smiley:
- nature-based solutions :D

- Maximilian (automotive engineering): HAD

- Louisa (cancer research): ITH

## Links + Downloads

**Exercises 5-7 & slides**
Exercises & lecture slides
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/spgaf0ude7bupof/AABVj2f248T0R7aBTgO97dIsa?dl=0

**Unit 5: TEXT**
https://youtu.be/PuqpR0rmf_Q
LOOM https://www.loom.com/share/b5d0b2620ddc4a34a386eb83da32a603

**Unit 6.1: COLOR**
https://youtu.be/Wjv9XoRZQAQ
LOOM: https://www.loom.com/share/4c2c3e2496994d8281a5e15e7acfad41

**Unit 6.2: COLOR**
https://youtu.be/yDrTwu9COQA
LOOM https://www.loom.com/share/0188b64257d841578f1b54bd29aca0ae
Exercise 6
5 Examples to analyse with respect to COLOR.

**Unit 7: LAYOUT**
https://youtu.be/FsQ7wZaKKbQ
LOOM https://www.loom.com/share/60d6addb1df0432a8cc0c618ef243c62
Exercise 7
4 Examples to analyse with respect to grid organisation & overall layout.

### Further reading materials:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ez7q2xfr7az8cr0/AABHCaDyXLSS2PnpMnamt6-qa?dl=0

Link about boxplots;
https://www.simplypsychology.org/boxplots.html

### Further reading materials:

## Feedback
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Positive/negative Feedback (Anything you liked or you feel was well explained, anything you missed or did't understand)
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# Day 3, Start 13:30!!!

- Live discussion of units 5-7, 30 min
- Peer-group work, breakout rooms, 1 h
- Individual work
- Goodbye, 15:45 live

## Participants list: Please add your name here if you joined today
1. Maximilian Bäumler
2. Michael Amponsah-Offeh
3. Josephine Görte
4. Tzu-Ting Wei (Cindy)
5. Moris Zahtila
6. Viktoria Arndt
7. Juliane Valtin
8. Louisa Krützfeldt
9. Max von Witzleben
10. Sebastian Oehler
12. Wanja Kassuhn
13. Katharina Schmidt
14. Satyam Raikwar
15. Jitong Zhao
16. Jennifer Wiederspahn
17. Tobias Schramm
18. Mohamed Abdullah
11. Riyan Habeeb - not in breakoutroom
20. Kathrin Meinhold - not in breakoutroom

## Links + Downloads

### Exercise, Solutions
Each is a possible solution, there are usually more than one option.
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/9dmdbtk46yzpfw6/AADG4fmmGi9aYnwD_0b255UZa?dl=0

### Image data, a few extra slides:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/8018xbb67qpcth8/UnitX_Images.pdf?dl=0

Cheatsheets:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/kzpbrefe9q29p5p/CheatSheet_ImagePublishing_ImageProcessing.pdf?dl=0

### Further reading materials
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/wupcgleb1hsgbbb/AADhWW700Ox-HWvUJzj2zGoNa?dl=0

### HackMD document download
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/cwlje0sho2hj5ci/AAB9XlmkM_JgUIbuqYzl6wiVa?dl=0

### Useful links
#### Further training (blogs and so on)
- Alberto Cairo: http://www.thefunctionalart.com/
- Storytelling with data http://www.storytellingwithdata.com/
- http://flowingdata.com/
- Talk by Hans Rosling, RIP https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVimVzgtD6w

#### Funny things:
- How good are you at judging R-values? http://guessthecorrelation.com/
- A funny tools to make up your chart:  http://robertgrantstats.co.uk/drawmydata.html
- Eyeballing game, guess angles etc http://woodgears.ca/eyeball/
- Clearly Nicolas cage is causing suicides: http://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations
- Science illustrations, get your main message across: http://stuffscientistssay.blogspot.de/?view=flipcard

#### Some more things about statistics etc:
- Visualize all your data: https://www.autodeskresearch.com/publications/samestats
- Basics on how to not mislead with charts https://flowingdata.com/2017/02/09/how-to-spot-visualization-lies/
- Train axis labeling, http://mathbench.umd.edu/modules/visualization_graph/page05.htm

#### Colors
- color blind friendly? http://www.color-blindness.com/coblis-color-blindness-simulator/
- Color-blind friendly images etc http://jfly.iam.u-tokyo.ac.jp/color/ 
- http://www.colourblindawareness.org/
- Rainbow color scheme: new color scheme replacing JET/rainbow color scheme http://bids.github.io/colormap/
- Choosing color palettes: https://hclwizard.org/
- XKCD color studyhttps://blog.xkcd.com/2010/05/03/color-survey-results/
- Lisa Rost, Pick beautiful colors for your charts  https://blog.datawrapper.de/beautifulcolors/
- Desktop app for visibility/colorblind savety https://colororacle.org/index.html
- Pick colors for data: https://colorbrewer2.org
- Test if colors work with charts https://projects.susielu.com/viz-palette
- Color schemes http://paletton.com
- Pick color from image: icolorpalette.com/color-palette-from-images

And two good reads about color: 
- XKCD color studyhttps://blog.xkcd.com/2010/05/03/color-survey-results/
- Lisa Rost, Pick beautiful colors for your charts  https://blog.datawrapper.de/beautifulcolors/

#### Online tools for charts
- Overview of charts types: 
- http://datavizproject.com/
- http://www.datavizcatalogue.com/
- Venn: http://bioinformatics.psb.ugent.be/webtools/Venn/
- but remember: not for >4 categories, alternative: upsetR!!!!!
- Interactive DotPlot: http://statistika.mfub.bg.ac.rs/interactive-dotplot/
- Line Charts for continuous data: https://huygens.science.uva.nl/PlotTwist/
- Distribution plots:
- Boxplot http://shiny.chemgrid.org/boxplotr/
- Raincloud plots (aka violin/boxplot with data points): https://gabrifc.shinyapps.io/raincloudplots/
- Instead of Bar charts:  https://huygens.science.uva.nl/PlotsOfDifferences/
- Michaelis-Menten graphs: http://www.physiologyweb.com/calculators/michaelis_menten_equation_interactive_graph.html

Great start: charts & maps: https://www.datawrapper.de/

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