{"id":1005,"date":"2008-11-14T04:49:03","date_gmt":"2008-11-14T09:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=1005"},"modified":"2008-11-14T04:49:03","modified_gmt":"2008-11-14T09:49:03","slug":"a-little-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/1005","title":{"rendered":"A Little Help"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.numberpix.com\/\">Pictures of Numbers<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Pictures of Numbers<\/em> is a book-project-in-progress, consisting of practical tips and techniques for busy researchers on improving their data presentation, and is updated in intermittent bursts of regularity<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In particular, there are<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.numberpix.com\/2006\/06\/better_axes.html\">Better Axes<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A good rule when making graphs is to remove needless impediments. Every extra act of interpretation we ask of the reader is a chance for them to misunderstand, be baffled, or get frustrated and move on. There should be as little standing between the reader and the data as possible. One level of interpretation all readers have to grapple with is the humble axis<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.numberpix.com\/2006\/05\/fixing_excels_charts.html\">Fixing Excel&#8217;s Charts<\/a>, which need fixing, and<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.numberpix.com\/2006\/04\/reflections_on_the_planets_1.html\">Reflections on the Planets<\/a>, which improves a plot of the albedo of the solar system&#8217;s planets<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kottke.org\/\">Kottke<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pictures of Numbers Pictures of Numbers is a book-project-in-progress, consisting of practical tips and techniques for busy researchers on improving their data presentation, and is updated in intermittent bursts of regularity In particular, there are Better Axes A good rule &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/1005\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,46],"tags":[246],"class_list":["post-1005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-math","category-science-general","tag-help-with-graphs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}