Getting Messages Across with Graphs
Dr. Jean-luc Doumont
Fri Jan 29, 02-04:00pm, 1-190
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Although widely used in research to analyze data and to communicate about them, graphical displays are still poorly mastered by researchers, who often use the wrong graphs or use them in the wrong way (and popular software does not exactly help). Based on Dr Doumont's book _Trees, maps, and theorems_ about “effective communication for rational minds”, this session discusses how to choose the right graph for a given data set and a given research question, how to optimize the graph's construction to reveal the data, and finally how to phrase a useful caption.
Contact: Leann Dobranski, Asst. Director, Teaching & Learning Lab, 5-122, x3-3371, leann@mit.edu
Sponsor: Teaching and Learning Lab
Cosponsor: Office of the Dean for Undergraduate Education
Latest update: 17-Nov-2009
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