This lecture covers three core concepts of visual communication. First, I will discuss how to engage your audience by telling a story. Second, I will provide high-level guidance for designing visualizations that make a clear point. Third, I will describe key design principles that ensure your figures will be readable by people with vision impairments, and specifically impairments of color perception.
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Visualizing amounts; visualizing distributions; visualizing associations and trends
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Visualizing uncertainty; visualizing geospatial data
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Colors; compound figures; infographics
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