Learn how to visualize your scientific content.
Creating comprehensible scientific figures
PIER Helmholtz Graduate School
A Graduate Education Program at DESY in Cooperation with Universität Hamburg
Creating comprehensible scientific figures
9 September 2022
In presentations and publications, scientific figures are the main means of conveying your research data and convincing the audience of your findings.
For this task your figures need to be comprehensible and as self-explanatory as possible. Achieving this level of understandability is not an easy task given the complex research findings different interpretation possibilities.
In this course you will:
- Develop a clear figure message
- Make the message visible in the graphic
- Create self-explanatory figures instead of just showing data
- Increase the message to noise ratio of a figure
- Tackle color choice, color consistency and appearance
- Choose the best representation format for the data
- Test the figures with the other participants for comprehensibility
Please note: Given that this is a hands-on workshop, you need some figures that can be used as basis for the exercises. Please also bring your laptop as well as the needed programs for improving your figures. Details:
Creating comprehensible scientific figures
Venue: Seminar room BAH2, building 3, Bahrenfeld Campus/DESY
The trainer: Dr. Carsten Rohr, Munich
Registration: https://indico.desy.de/event/34677/
