IN049
Visual Communication in Science: New Ideas, Best Practices, Great Tools, Awesome Examples
Session ID#: 82631
Session Description:
Most of science is still recorded and communicated through the medium of the published scientific paper consisting of text and figures. Within this paradigm, and in the related communication venues of formal talks and posters, figures and illustrations are critical to telling the story. This is increasingly the case as science deals with larger and broader audiences and with massive volumes of data. Much of scientific figure creation and illustration is done by the scientists themselves, frequently with little formal training in illustration or graphic principles, and often with limited available toolboxes.
This session will explore effective examples, principles, and tools with relevance to visual communication of science on the printed page (both digital and paper). A variety of presentations are encouraged for this session including discussion of effective examples, of general principles, of new or existing tools, as well as metrics for evaluation of figure effectiveness.
Index Terms:
1994 Visualization and portrayal [INFORMATICS]
9820 Techniques applicable in three or more fields [GENERAL OR MISCELLANEOUS]
Primary Convener: Richard Saltus, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
Conveners: Alexandria Ware, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, Francesca Samsel, University of Texas at Austin, Texas Advanced Computing Center, Austin, TX, United States and Erin Lefevre, University of Colorado at Boulder, CIRES, Boulder, CO, United States
Primary Liaison: Richard Saltus, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States
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Stephanie Zeller, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States and Francesca Samsel, University of Texas at Austin, Texas Advanced Computing Center, Austin, TX, United States
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Interactive, Web-based Visualizations for Hierarchical Information and Knowledge in Geosciences: An Implementation on the Dana Classification and its Applications (557753)
Hao Zhong1, Anirudh Prabhu1, Fang Huang1, Ahmed Eleish1, Katherine Chastain1, Brenda L Thomson1, Shweta Narkar1, Kathleen S Fontaine1, Daniel R Hummer2, Shaunna M Morrison3, Robert T Downs4, Robert Hazen3, Peter Arthur Fox1 and Peter J Heaney5, (1)Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Tetherless World Constellation, Troy, NY, United States, (2)Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Department of Geology, Carbondale, IL, United States, (3)Carnegie Institution for Science, Geophysical Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States, (4)University of Arizona, Department of Geosciences, Tucson, AZ, United States, (5)Penn State Univ, University Park, PA, United States
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Robert Roth1, Ross Thorn1, Simon J Goring2, Shane Loeffler3, Amy Myrbo4 and Jack Williams5, (1)University of Wisconsin Madison, Geography, Madison, WI, United States, (2)University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, United States, (3)University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Earth Sciences, Minneapolis, MN, United States, (4)University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States, (5)University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Geography, Madison, WI, United States
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Fedor Baart1, Gennadii Donchyts1, Giorgos Dimopoulos2, Juliette Cortesarevalo3, Peter van Oosterom2 and Martijn Meijers2, (1)Deltares, Delft, Netherlands, (2)Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands, (3)University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands
