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Repository and research compendium in support of the manuscript "Spring haul-out behavior of seals in the Bering and Chukchi seas." Maintained by Josh London (@jmlondon / josh.london@noaa.gov)
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Improve Figure 1 #8

Closed jmlondon closed 2 years ago

jmlondon commented 2 years ago

The intent of figure 1 is to show the distribution of raw behavior observations from March through July. I went with a calendar-like layout with weeks in columns because I thought that might be more familiar for readers. Comments from Justin (and Lori) suggest this figure could be improved.

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Justin suggested fixing the upper left square to the start day-of-year (i.e. March 1) and extending the columns to represent 10 days (3 columns in a month). I think this is doable within the general framework of the figure code .. and would remove the somewhat awkward inclusion of the weekday row labels.

I think, maybe, 8 days per column would be a nicer spread. Will need to think how best to label the rows (01-Mar, 02-Mar, .. ?)

jmlondon commented 2 years ago

updated this figure by organizing the day-of-year into 8-day pseudo-weeks (column groupings) and row groupings

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I think this might be better, but it may still be difficult for the reader to orient the start and end of each month? Does it matter? The main purpose of this figure is to communicate the variability in data availability across the study period/season. And, I think it does that.