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Ten Simple Rules for Better Figures #46

Open rougier opened 8 years ago

rougier commented 8 years ago

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)

bkatiemills commented 8 years ago

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!

wkearn commented 7 years ago

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:

  1. Go over the Ten Simple Rules
  2. Talk a little bit more about the different tools everyone uses
  3. Spend some time coworking on our own figures
  4. 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.