2013 CEEB Workshop 2: Graphical design for publications

Workshop delivered by Eric Pedersen at the 2013 CEEB retreat on building better graphs for your publications.

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1. On building a better graph So (mostly stolen) thoughts on making graphs speak
4. Four principles of better plotting: 1. Use higher data-ink ratios 2. Be honest about uncertainty 3. Make visual information unambiguous 4. Make use of small multiples
11. Original Deuteranope Tritanope Protanope
12. ColorBrewer: Finding a colour scheme that works:
22. Further reading Tufte: All of his books, but start with: The Visual Display of Quantitative Information Gelman: Red State, Blue State and his blog: andrewgelman.com Wickham: The site: ggplot2.org and his book: ggplot2: Elegant Graphics for Data Analysis Testing colourblindness: the VisCheck site & Plugin: http: //www.vischeck.com/downloads/