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Crafting plots for movies
Posted by Joachim Goedhart, on 6 May 2020
In a previous blog I explained how animated plots can be made to illustrate the dynamics of data. Animated plots go nicely together with the movies from which the data …Dynamic display of data with animated plots
Posted by Joachim Goedhart, on 27 April 2020
Data from time-lapse experiments is often displayed in a graph or plot, to visualize the dynamics of biological systems (Goedhart, 2020). Ironically, the perception of the dynamics is largely lost …An Introduction to Writing Review Articles
Posted by Seema Grewal, on 7 April 2020
Last week, I gave a talk (online, of course) about ‘Writing review articles’. It was aimed at graduate students who, as part of their training, had to identify a topic …Time to crack coding?
Posted by Alex Eve, on 24 March 2020
As labs shut down in response to the coronavirus pandemic, some might be unsure of what to do next. Even if your project doesn’t have a computational (i.e. bioinformatic) aspect, …Data Visualization with Flying Colors
Posted by Joachim Goedhart, on 29 August 2019
The importance of barrier-free use of colors in images and graphs has been highlighted in letters to editors (Miall, 2007), papers (Geissbuehler and Lasser, 2013, Levine, 2009), editorials (anonymous, 2007), …Data manipulation? It’s normal(ization)!
Posted by Joachim Goedhart, on 25 June 2019
In a previous blog, I have highlighted several ways to visualize the cell-to-cell heterogeneity from time-lapse imaging data. However, I have ignored that data is often rescaled in a way …
How to make colour blind friendly palettes, from regular contributor Jochim Goedhart.
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