“Communicating Science Visually” Handout

Presentations - Online references

General

English communication for Scientistshttp://www.nature.com/scitable/ebooks/cntNm-14053993/contents

Colour combinationshttps://kuler.adobe.com/

Slide presentations

Russell, W. The 10 Most Common Presentation Mistakes http://presentationsoft.about.com/od/presentationmistakes/tp/080722_presentation_mistakes.htm

Schuman, R. Power Point in Higher Educationhttp://www.slate.com/articles/life/education/2014/03/powerpoint_in_higher_education_is_ruining_teaching.html

Posters

Purrington, C.B. Designing conference postershttp://colinpurrington.com/tips/academic/posterdesign

Miller, J. E Preparing and Presenting Effective Research Posters http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1955747

Presentations – Books

Mollerup, P. PowerNotes: slide presentations reconsideredhttp://researchbank.swinburne.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/swin:21454

Fraser, J. and Hutber, G. Creating Effective Conference Abstracts and Posters in Biomedicine: 500 Tips for Successhttp://www.radcliffehealth.com/shop/creating-effective-conference-abstracts-and-posters-biomedicine-500-tips-success

Duarte, N. Slide:ology: the art and science of creating great presentationshttp://rcokoit.ru/dld/blog/slideology.pdf

Harvard Business Review. Guide to persuasive presentations http://lab.cfmt.it/pdf/Guide%20to%20Persuasive%20Presentations.pdf

Others

Importance of visual communication in briefhttp://www.giantscreencinema.com/Portals/0/BarryPaperFinal.pdf

The perspective of a science photographer and a research scientist at MIT http://www.felicefrankel.com/

Visualization et al. by Pedro Cruz (researcher at the University of Coimbra)http://pmcruz.com/

Visual.ly - science infographicshttp://visual.ly/science-infographics

Visual complexity - visualization of complex networkshttp://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/

Hans Rosling's - A different way to display statistics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbkSRLYSojo

Science Visualizedhttp://mucholderthen.tumblr.com/

ChronoZoom - educational tool to put historical events in perspectivehttp://www.chronozoom.com/#/t00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000

Circos - software package for visualizing data and information in a circular layouthttp://circos.ca/

8 types of infographics: which one is right for you? http://piktochart.com/8-types-of-infographics-which-one-is-right-for-you/

plotly is an online collaborative data analysis and graphing toolhttps://plot.ly/plot

Schemaball - a flexible schema visualizer for SQL databaseshttp://mkweb.bcgsc.ca/schemaball/

How to Be an Educated Consumer of Infographics: David Byrne on the Art-Science of Visual Storytellinghttp://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/10/08/best-american-infographics-david-byrne/

Music Timelinehttps://music-timeline.appspot.com/#

Train times UK – live maphttp://traintimes.org.uk/map/tube/

Inspiration: 29 ways to stay creative http://to-fu.tv/archives/102

Data Visualization 101: How to design charts and graphshttp://offers.hubspot.com/data-visualization-guide

Poster design: a practical guide for scientists and engineers

http://www.britishscienceassociation.org/sites/default/files/root/SiS/Practical_Design_Guide_FINAL_SPREADS.pdf

Resources

Free images http://www.freeimages.com/

Istockphoto http://www.istockphoto.com/

Morgue file http://www.morguefile.com/

CG textureshttp://www.cgtextures.com/

Media commonshttp://mediacommons.psu.edu/free-media-library/

Creative commonshttp://search.creativecommons.org/

Wellcome images http://wellcomeimages.org/

Photo Funiahttp://photofunia.com/