Teaching scientific communication using infographics

Infographics: Healthcare Communication for the Digital Age

The concept of presenting information in graphical format is not new. A number of early examples of data visualisation exist from the eighteenth century; most notably the depiction of the deck layout of the British slave ship Brookes in 17882. This information poster (see figure 1) depicted views of the reprehensible living conditions suffered by slaves during their voyage to the colonies and w...

On Teaching Narrative Infographics in an Information Visualization Course

Although not currently a standard topic to teach in a technicallyfocused information visualization course, I have found assigning a Narrative Infographic an effective way to introduce narrative and story into the presentation of data visualization. By teaching the skills explicitly, I guide students towards using pictorial components responsibly for engagement, staying on the right side of char...

Teaching Communication

A second-language teacher’s classroom activity can be optimized by considering i ts relationship to the development, in his students, of communication skills. The development of these skills presupposes the presence and insights of a live teacher, and cannot be accomplished by a machine. That the techniques advocated here are practical, is illustrated by a description of communication practice ...

Maximising the impact of your work using infographics

Using VisTrails and Provenance for Teaching Scientific Visualization

Over the last 20 years, visualization courses have been developed and offered at universities around the world. Many of these courses use established visualization libraries and tools (e.g. VTK, ParaView, AVS, VisIt) as a way to provide students a hands-on experience, allowing them to prototype and explore different visualization techniques. In this paper, we describe our experiences using VisT...