Research Survival Skills

Definition

"visual representation and presentation of data to facilitate understanding"

What is the goal of your visualization?

• Exploring the data for yourself

• 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