{"id":3704,"date":"2019-02-22T05:43:34","date_gmt":"2019-02-22T12:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/?p=3704"},"modified":"2019-02-22T05:43:34","modified_gmt":"2019-02-22T12:43:34","slug":"resource-of-the-week-visualizing-small-data-sets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/2019\/02\/22\/resource-of-the-week-visualizing-small-data-sets\/","title":{"rendered":"Resource of the Week: Visualization Tips for Small Data Sets\/Sample Sizes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3705\" style=\"width: 642px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/journals.plos.org\/plosbiology\/article?id=10.1371\/journal.pbio.1002128\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3705\" class=\" wp-image-3705 img-fluid\" src=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement-preprod\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2019\/02\/Capture.jpg\" alt=\"Screenshot of manuscript with first set of figures visible. Follow links to view full-text.\" width=\"632\" height=\"557\" srcset=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2019\/02\/Capture.jpg 991w, https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2019\/02\/Capture-300x265.jpg 300w, https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2019\/02\/Capture-768x677.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 632px) 100vw, 632px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3705\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Screenshot. Contents \u00a9 Weissgerber et al, 2015.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>According to Tracey L. Weissgerber, Natasa M. Milic, Stacey J. Winham, and Vesna D. Garovic, proper representation of small data sets and sample sizes\u00a0allows accurate interpretation. Doing so, they assert, requires displaying continuous data. But, they write, \u201cMost papers presented continuous data in bar and line graphs. This is problematic, as many different data distributions can lead to the same bar or line graph\u201d (2015).<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.plos.org\/plosbiology\/article?id=10.1371\/journal.pbio.1002128\">their paper in PLOS Biology<\/a> and in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/T_Weissgerber\/status\/1087646461548998657\">a companion Twitter thread<\/a> by Weissgerber , the authors provide detailed advice, including numerous figures, explaining how to develop figures that most effectively and accurately display small data sets.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3706\" style=\"width: 669px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/T_Weissgerber\/status\/1087646461548998657\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3706\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3706 img-fluid\" src=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement-preprod\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2019\/02\/Capture-1.jpg\" alt=\"Screenshot of Twitter thread. Follow links for full text.\" width=\"659\" height=\"733\" srcset=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2019\/02\/Capture-1.jpg 659w, https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2019\/02\/Capture-1-270x300.jpg 270w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 659px) 100vw, 659px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3706\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Screenshot of Twitter thread.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Tracey L. Weissgerber, Natasa M. Milic, Stacey J. Winham, and Vesna D. Garovic, proper representation of small data sets and sample sizes\u00a0allows accurate interpretation. Doing so, they assert, requires displaying continuous data. But, they write, \u201cMost papers presented continuous data in bar and line graphs. This is problematic, as many different data distributions can lead to the same&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5469,"featured_media":3706,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,15,16,20],"tags":[25,41,43,53,79,80,81,87,108,113,114,115,120,152,153],"class_list":["post-3704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-blog-scicomm-by-scientists","category-resource-of-the-week","category-resources","category-sketchingbeyond","tag-dataviz","tag-visualizingscience","tag-advancing-science-communication","tag-blog-post","tag-graphic-design-tips-2","tag-great-scicomm","tag-handy-links","tag-inspiration","tag-presentation-tips","tag-resource","tag-resource-of-the-week","tag-resources-2","tag-scicomm-by-scientists","tag-visual-scicomm","tag-visualizing-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5469"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/communication-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}