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Ten Simple Rules for Better Figures
Link: https://github.com/rougier/ten-rules Author: @rougier Video: none Description: A set of 10 rules for improving figures with matplotlib sources (http://www.ploscompbiol.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003833)
thanks! I think I'll take this to Journal Club next time!
Actually - there's an idea; maybe we need a section for journal club papers!
The BU Study Group just did a session based on this paper, and it was fairly successful.
Here is a link to our etherpad, which has some more links to resources including the slides which I made: https://public.etherpad-mozilla.org/p/BU-figures20170405
The plan for a 1.5 hour session was:
- Go over the Ten Simple Rules
- Talk a little bit more about the different tools everyone uses
- Spend some time coworking on our own figures
- End with some lightning talks on the better figures
We ended up not really doing 3 or 4 and instead doing a few collaborative figure critiques of people's figures. Having done the article presentation before that was helpful because we had some more concrete things to point to and improvements to suggest. I think it was too much to expect to get people to work on their own figures in the time we had, and I would recommend planning a figure critique, either with your own figures or with one or two volunteered from the audience.
We had mostly ggplot2 users with a few matplotlib users. As a result, it did lean a little more towards "what cool things can ggplot let you do" than I had anticipated. This is probably unavoidable unless you have a really wide range of tools represented in the audience.
