Visual Communication for scientists
Visual Communication for scientists
Welcome to Data Visualization for scientists
First of all, I am really sorry I will not meet you in person! However, the past 3 months were perfect time for writing up research reports, online presentations, and finishing projects. Maybe you already made a ton of new figures showing your results, maybe you are about to. In any way, you signed up because along the way to your PhD you will have to present your research results and this is done by writing about it in a paper with text and figures, by presenting it at conferences with slides and/or posters, and one day with a oral defense that needs legible slides.
This course requires 9 hours of your time, and is set for 3 afternoons. Let us however benefit from the flexibility of online teaching and allow each one of you to come up with their own schedule. We will of course meet in live sessions, but we will also have video’s, exercises that you do alone or in pairs, and reading materials. Roughly, we will meet online on Wednesday and Thursday
Course overview:
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Day 1 |
Day 2 |
Day 3 |
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Welcome LIVE |
Discuss lectures LIVE |
group work |
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Test OPAL |
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individual work |
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Unit 1 LIVE |
Unit 6-8 |
group discussion |
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Unit 2-5 |
Prepare Day 3 |
send work in |
We meet online Wednesday 24rd 13:00
Once everyone was able to log in to BigBlueButton and say hi, we will discuss the course outline and familiarize ourselves with the OPAL system, which is our main point of reference.
We will then have a live session of Unit 1 and time for questions, before students individually go through lectures and exercises for unite 2-5.
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https://selfservice.zih.tu-dresden.de/l/link.php?meeting_id=18757&pin=840033b7
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We meet online Thursday 25th 13:00
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We meet online Friday 26th 13:00
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https://selfservice.zih.tu-dresden.de/l/link.php?meeting_id=18760&pin=1b64d58f
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Overview of Units:
Unit 1: Why visualize (recorded live session)
Unit 2: Charts introduction
Unit 3: More charts, for distributions
Unit 4: Misleading charts
Unit 5: Text
Unit 6: Color
Unit 7: Layouting
Unit 8: Decluttering
*** optional lectures ***
Unit 9: visualize text: tables and more
Unit 10: publishing images, ethics of image presentation
Unit 11: More Tipps and Tricks