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DILS Seminar

Winter Semester 2023/24

Tuesdays, 14:15, ekvv


Hybrid: U10-116/146 and online via Zoom.


This doctoral research seminar of the DILS graduate school is dedicated to PhD students of the Bielefeld Institute for Bioinformatics Infrastructure (BIBI) and friends. Guests are always welcome.


The topics presented are determined by the research interests of the graduate school. The main aim of this seminar is to keep the participants informed on the current developments and to critically discuss recent developments.


This semester, we address the challenge of producing good scientific visualizations – design principles, color design, technical realization.


Date Topic
10.10. Organization of the seminar
17.10. Collecting, discussing sources and topics
24.10. Visualizing biological data, The overview figure, The design process, Layout, Negative space
31.10. Gestalt principles (Parts 1 & 2), Salience to relevance, Elements of visual style, Storytelling
07.11. Using color: Color Coding, Color blindness, Avoiding color, Mapping quantitative data to color, Heat maps
14.11. Supervision agreement (see email)
21.11. PhD defense rehearsal Hanna in G2-104
28.11. Skipped for wants of participants
05.12. 12:15 in G2-104: Hanna's Disputation
12.12. Elements of a figure: Typography, Axes, ticks and grids, Labels and callouts, Plotting symbols, Arrows
19.12. Plot types: Bar charts and box plots, Sets and intersections, Heat maps, Temporal data, Unentangling complex plots, Pathways, Neural circuit diagrams
– X-mas break –
09.01. Improving figure clarity: Simplify to clarify, Design of data figures, Salience, Points of review (Part 1), Points of review (Part 2)
Homework (i) read relevant remaining parts of "Points of View"
(ii) prepare some real world data to practice
16.01. provide and introduce “your” data (homework (ii))
Link to share all our data (password: &weichkaese2000)
23.01. hands-on session I
30.01. hands-on session II

Data visualization: A view of every Points of View column

As of July 30, 2013 Nature Methods has published 35 Points of View columns written by Bang Wong, Martin Krzywinski and their co-authors: Nils Gehlenborg, Cydney Nielsen, Noam Shoresh, Rikke Schmidt Kjærgaard, Erica Savig and Alberto Cairo.

How to Design an Award-Winning Scientific Conference Poster

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Showcases

A huge collection of examples on data visualizations is provided by the “Data Visualization Society”, which organizes the “Visualization in Beautiful” award.

Tool, packages, libraries for scientific visualzation