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Better Figures does RMetS at the ECMWF

October 2, 2015 · by · in accessibility, Chart, Colour, colour blindness, Maps, Presentation · Leave a comment

That’s Royal Meterological Society at the European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting. We had an afternoon of Visualisation of Meterological data, part of the ECMWF visualisation week, and Better Figures was lucky enough to be invited to present (download the slides). ECMWF was great, in that they have preserved the 1970’s decor beautifully, alongside […]

A welcome development for matplotlib

July 10, 2015 · by · in accessibility, Chart, Colour, colour blindness, Maps, matplolib, palettes, Presentation, python, Video · 10 Comments

Here is a great video, describing viridis, the new default colourmap for matplotlib in the programming language Python. This has some great features – It’s perceptually uniform across its range, it’s pretty, and it works for the colourblind. Oh, and you’re free to use it. The last five minutes or so describe the process and thinking […]

Making Better Figures [Video]

March 30, 2015 · by · in accessibility, Animation, Chart, Colour, colour blindness, Maps, palettes, Presentation, Projection, Timeseries, Video · 1 Comment

Better Figures made a video! https://vimeo.com/123037693 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 […]