Data visualisation: Tips to improve interpretability and accessibility by Dr Tracey Weissgerber

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About the speaker

Tracey Weissgerber is a meta-researcher at the BIH QUEST Center for Responsible Research (Berlin Institute of Health at Charité). Her research focuses on improving data visualization, statistical reporting, open methods, and other factors that affect transparency and reproducibility. Her teams’ work on bar graphs of continuous data has led to policy changes in many journals that encourage authors to replace bar graphs with more informative graphics. Dr Weissgerber’s team also designs automated screening tools to help authors to improve their papers.

About the talk

The talk will cover:

• Strategies for designing figures that resonate with a broad audience
• Techniques for creating clear and informative image-based figures (photos, microscopy, electron microscopy, etc.)
• Tools and techniques for creating colorblind accessible figures

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