Don't Panic Geocast Episode 43 - “Life should be more than turning off drop shadow defaults”
Nov 13, 2015
52:07
This week Shannon is grading, John is modeling (numerically), and they both are mad about some graphs they have seen.
Data Visualization
- We are colorblind
- Tableau20 Colors
- Rainbow Color Map (Still) Considered Harmful
- A Better Default Colormap (video)
- Perceptual Color Maps in matplotlib for Oceanography (video)
- Evaluation of Artery Visualization for Heart Disease Diagnosis (Borkin et al.)
- Make everything bigger than you think it needs to be!
Resources
- Edward Tufte
- Flowing Data
- Visualize This (Book)
- Data Points (Book)
- The Craft of Scientific Presentations (Book)
- Presentation Zen (Book)
- Data Fluency (Book)
- Ask people that make things you like!
Fun Paper Friday
This week we talk about thundersnow and the Trump tower. How can buildings strike clouds?