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Slides and references of the presentation for the Barcelona BioInformatics Unseminar: An intro to Data Visualization

Barcelona Unseminar in Bioinformatics

The Grammar of Graphics

The Grammar of Graphics, Leland Wilkinson

http://www.springer.com/gp/book/9780387245447

A Layered Grammar of Graphics, Hadley Wickham

http://vita.had.co.nz/papers/layered-grammar.pdf

The Language of Graphics, J. von Engelhardt

http://dare.uva.nl/search?arno.record.id=105970

(Some) Visualization Guidelines

Data Ink Ratio:

http://graphics.wsj.com/infectious-diseases-and-vaccines/

Color brewer palettes, by Cynthia Brewer:

http://colorbrewer2.org/

Good use of color palettes

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/11/04/upshot/senate-maps.html

Revealing patterns: Local and Tourists maps, Eric Fisher

https://www.flickr.com/photos/walkingsf/sets/72157624209158632/

Putting data in context: The Billion Dollar-o-Gram 2013, David McCandless

http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/billion-dollar-o-gram-2013/

Form follows function, redesigning an infographic, Alberto Cairo

http://www.informationisbeautifulawards.com/showcase/113-arab-spring http://www.thefunctionalart.com/2015/02/redesigning-circular-timeline.html

Use and abuse of aesthetics

http://www.simonscarr.com/iraqs-bloody-toll/ http://www.businessinsider.com/gun-deaths-in-florida-increased-with-stand-your-ground-2014-2

Towards Explorable Explanations

http://worrydream.com/#!/ExplorableExplanations, Bret Victor