Figure-making tips

What makes a good figure?

  1. Clear, focused message
  2. Easy to interpret (adapt to your audience)
  3. Honest representation of your data

Set representations:
UpSet plots are much better than Venn diagrams

Value representations:
Violin plots are better than bar plots
https://stekhoven.shinyapps.io/barplotNonsense/

Scatter plots:
Take care of the aspect ratio

Highlighting what is important:
Color, size, orientation, shape, additional mark, motion, or grouping

Font sizes:
1pt=172in=0.353mm


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