Article review: Why scientists need to be better at data visualisation

While I have been studying Excel, the instructor on the YouTube video I was watching said that humans can not easily discern the size and angle of a bar chart as well as they can a column or bar chart. This revelation prompted me to do a bit of digging to see what I could find out about the subject. I searched the internet and found an article entitled, “Why scientists need to be better at data visualisation”. I decided to read and review this piece to see if I could pick up any more scientific facts about visualising data for the projects that I work on:-

Scientific literature is riddled with bad charts and graphs, leading to misunderstanding and worse. Avoiding design missteps can improve understanding of research.

Science would be more difficult to understand if there were no images in scientific textbooks.

Humans are visual creatures. Scientific visuals can be essential for analysing data, communicating experimental results, and even making discoveries.

Visualisations can reveal patterns, trends and connections in data that are difficult or impossible to find any other way.

Scientists receive very little visualisation training. Improving scientific visualisation requires better understanding or the strength, weaknesses…