Description: This course provides a practical guide to producing figures for use in reports and publications.

It is a wide ranging course which looks at how to design figures to clearly and fairly represent your data, the practical aspects of graph creation, the allowable manipulation of bitmap images and compositing and editing of final figures.

The course will use a number of different open source software packages and is illustrated with a number of example figures adapted from common analysis tools.

Further information and access to the course materials is here.

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Target audience:

• Graduate students, Postdocs and Staff members from the University of Cambridge, Affiliated Institutions and other external Institutions or individuals
• Further details regarding eligibility criteria are available here
• Further details regarding the charging policy are available here

Duration: 1

Sessions:

Number of sessions: 1

Format: Presentations, demonstrations and practicals

Frequency: A number of times per year

Aims: During this course you will learn about:

• Data Visualisation Theory
• Data Representation
• Ethics of Data Representation
• Design Theory
• GIMP
• Inkscape

Objectives: After this course you should be able to:

• Understand general data visualisation theory
• Discuss ethics and design theory with regards to scientific figures
• Edit bitmap and vector graphics for publication