Pieces
Newest first. Five formats, in ascending order of how long they take.
- Spot check 0 One published figure, annotated where it stops working.
- Redraw 0 The deposited data behind a figure, replotted, shown side by side with the original.
- Explainer 0 One dataset or one mechanism, walked through step by step as you scroll.
- Interactive 1 A published model you can drive, with the parameters cited.
- Guide 4 Reference for working scientists. What to do, why, and what happens if you do not.
- Volume 0 Three-dimensional and experimental media, where the third dimension carries information.
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Guide
SEM or SD?
One of them describes your animals and one describes your confidence in an average. Collecting more animals shrinks only the second.
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Guide
Jet
The rainbow colourmap puts its brightest colour two thirds of the way up, and its top and bottom are nearly the same shade of dark.
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Guide
What your plotting library gives you by default
matplotlib's second and third colours are the same colour to a red-blind reader. Three conditions is the most ordinary figure there is.
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Guide
What your journal checks, and what it does not
Two publishers, the same 300 dpi, and only one of them asks whether anyone can tell your colours apart.
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Interactive
A figure is an instrument
Which chart you choose changes what people take away. That is a measured effect, not a matter of taste.