Category Archives: data visualization

Did you catch Kylie at ASM 2018?

Since this is too late to be advertising, it’ll have to just go into the bragging-on-my-students category.

Congratulations to @KylieLanglois on presenting her beautiful and fascinating poster at #asmmicrobe2018 https://twitter.com/KylieLanglois/status/1005134046832230400 http://www.stonybrook.edu/cleanwater/ #NYSCCWT #BetterLateThanNeverNOT

If you happen to be in New Orleans this week…

First: lucky you! and then second:

Kylie Langlois (@KylieLanglois) will be presenting her dissertation research on the microbial communities of nitrogen-removing biofilters at the big ACS meeting #ACSNOLA 2018; check it out!

Abstract ENVR 457, Wednesday March 21, 4pm, Room 348 of the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center @NewOrleansENMCC

This research would not be possible without the New York State Center for Clean Water Technology, CCWT http://www.stonybrook.edu/cleanwater/

Want to make effective figures? Understanding how people process images helps!

I read a really interesting paper today, Harold et al. 2016 ‘Cognitive and psychological science insights to improve climate change data visualization’. Not just useful for thinking about climate change data, but for planning effective figures of any sort.

Some points felt really familiar: articulations of experience and intuition I’d never thought to verbalize, like why I really want to have a figure and the text talking about it side-by-side to understand them together… turns out that’s a real cognitive Thing with its own term!

Here’s their Figure 2, summarizing the major points.

Figure 2

Anyway check it out for useful insights about improving the figures you’re working on right now.

http://rdcu.be/IIv6

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