Definition
"visual representation and presentation of data to facilitate understanding"
- Andy Kirk, 2019
What is the goal of your visualization?
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Exploring the data for yourself
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Supporting an analysis
What should be in it?
- Ensure the variables shown in the visualization are the ones that answer your questions
- Relevant summaries and uncertainty
Where appropriate, follow examples
- What's the common way to present this in your discipline?
- Searching in captions in some databases.
- Check your journal style guide if submitting manuscript
Possible + useful = relevant
- There is no right answer, there is the right answer for your situation
- Graph data more than once to show different aspects