First aid for figures: all resources

A collection of links to useful resources for data visualization
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Helena Jambor

Published

October 23, 2024

All the useful websites!

I have already emailed these Dataviz resources to countless scientists - high time to post the collected links here!

The websites are organised by the different aspects of creating scientific data figures: 1. Choosing a chart, 2. text, 3. layouts, 4. colors. There are also links to special use cases and a bit of entertainment.

Choosing charts

Further reading: Beyond bar and line plots

Text (replace text with images)

  • Use abbreviations rarely, and only if tested.
  • Add alt-text to support accessibility of figures. Here is how
  • Consider replacing/enhancing text with icons.

Some general pictogram resources:

Biology/Science

Medicine

Layout

Find inspiring Layouts in Will Timmins-Stahl BMJ Infografics

Color

Specials

Graphical Abstracts

My article about Graphical Abstracts (without Biorender)

See also my previous blogs here, here, and here.

Resources for image data

Tables

Check out my previous blog.

Fun with numbers

Make it: Tools

A handy list for finding resources to tools and software: - All about creating charts in R by Eric-Jan Wagenmakers and Quentin F. Gronau, suggestion from Vincent

Slides from an introductory talk

  • intro to why we visualize
  • tips: how not to lie with charts
  • exercises for improving poor charts

link to slides