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Why Seeing Still Matters in Biology

Posted by , on 26 January 2026

or, Why all biologists needs data visualization Biology probes form and function of Life. Form is easy to grasp: cells under a microscope, subcellular structures in electron micrographs, or organisms ...

Science visualization trends of 2021

Posted by , on 10 January 2022

What are the top 10 science visualization trends of 2021? I summarize ten notable changes I've seen in science figures in the past year.

How to... Graphical Abstract

Posted by , on 27 October 2020

Helena Jambor shares her tips for how to create a captivating and coherent visual abstract

Non-zero baselines: the good, the bad, and the ugly

Posted by , on 20 June 2019

Of all the charts being ridiculed at WTFviz, many get shamed for their lack of a zero-baseline. When teaching DataViz, zero-baselines are invariably a topic of debate. The rules about ...

Showing distributions

Posted by , on 6 August 2018

When reading about co-evolution of prey and predators, I stumbled across a cute new plot type: a half boxplot, half dot plot to show data distributions.     Wilson used ...

Recent comments by Helena Jambor

Hi Nicolas, yes, you are absolutely right and my sentence was a little bit tongue-in-cheek. There probably should be an article about how much our brain is forcing us to believe patterns exist - and how this can lead to mis- interpretation of data! Best Helena
by Helena Jambor in Showing distributions on August 8, 2018