August 13, 2013

Some more graphics links

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  • Subtleties of Color (parts 1, 2, 3) on choosing colour palettes for different types of graphic
  • Dear NASA, No more rainbow color scales, please.
  • The Colour Oracle runs a colour filter on your whole screen to show the impact of the three sorts of dichromatic colour vision. Now it’s easy to avoid graphs that are invisible to some of your audience.
  • “Standards of statistical presentation”, originally published in 1966 by the US Army, and containing a lot of what StatsChat covers.  This isn’t cutting edge stuff, people.
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Thomas Lumley (@tslumley) is Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Auckland. His research interests include semiparametric models, survey sampling, statistical computing, foundations of statistics, and whatever methodological problems his medical collaborators come up with. He also blogs at Biased and Inefficient See all posts by Thomas Lumley »