I came across this today…
Top Ten Worst Graphs –
http://www.biostat.wisc.edu/~kbroman/topten_worstgraphs/
…which got me thinking about data visualisation for scientific papers, posters and talks. This is another one of those things that isn’t taught to scientists, but really should be, as it really affects the impact and credibility of a study. I know I spend a lot of time on my figures – maybe too much? – but it’s a really crucial aspect of communicating research.
So, here are some more visualisation ideas:
- DataVis.ca (loads of ideas)
- Best and worst graphs from DecisionStats
- Interactive Tree of Life (iTOL) for displaying rich info with phylogenies
- R Graph Gallery for all the weird and wonderful things you can do with R
- BRIG – blast ring image generator for bacterial genome comparisons
- Circos -more complex genome comparison visualisation (uses Brewer colour palettes from below)
And, crucially, colour schemes that work for different kinds of data (Cynthia Brewer)
- colour scheme guidelines
- interactive colour picker – awesome!!
Hi Kat,
I really like your Blog and think you are doing a great work. I don’t know if this the right forum but I would like you to consider to comment on our free MLST finding tool for NGS data. you can find it here: http://www.cbs.dtu.dk/services/MLST/
Cheers from Copenhagen,
Henrik