Better Figures made a video!
The video offers some tips for making better figures.
We cover:
A brief history of statistical graphics [02:20]
Everybody loves a bad figure [08:10]
Some principles [11:35]
Making better timeseries (applying those principles) [13:13]
Projection distortion [18:00]
Better Palettes [18:46]
We need to talk about “Rainbow” [23:30]
Design, and design again [31:06]
You can download the slides here.
It’s important to remember that this talk represents my PERSONAL VIEWS , and DOES NOT REPRESENT THE VIEWS OF THE MET OFFICE. Ahem.
Thanks for watching – if you have any comments or suggestions leave them below, or tweet @betterfigures or @dougmcneall and we’ll make sure that the next version of the talk is even better.
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