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developmental and stem cell biologists
Posted by Joachim Goedhart, on 27 October 2022
Scientists are familiar with protocols that describe in a step-by-step fashion how an experiment is performed. But they are usually less familiar with code or scripts for handling data. Yet, ...Posted by the Node, on 27 September 2022
With the calendar about to click over from September to October, we are bringing you one last post highlighting some of our archive content that we hope will help make ...Posted by Helena Jambor, 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.Posted by Helena Jambor, on 27 October 2020
Helena Jambor shares her tips for how to create a captivating and coherent visual abstractPosted by Joachim Goedhart, on 29 September 2020
The superplot was recently proposed as a data visualization strategy that improves the communication of experimental results (Lord et al, 2020). To simplify the visualization of data with a superplot, ...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 ...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 ...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), ...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 ...Posted by Helena Jambor, 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 ...