#  Conveying Messages With Graphs (Jean-luc Doumont) 

 



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 **January 19, 2018** 

 02:00PM - 04:00PM EST 

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 **Jefferson 250**  



 

 



 

Widely used in research to analyze and communicate data, graphical displays are still poorly mastered by researchers, who frequently display their data sets in a suboptimal way (and popular software does not exactly help). This lecture discusses how to select the right graph for a given data set and a given research question, how to optimize this graph to reveal the data, and finally how to phrase a useful caption. [[add to calendar](https://www.google.com/calendar/event?eid=Xzc1MjRjZDlnNmQyNDJiOW02Z29qZWI5azZrbzRjYjlwOHAyamdiYTU2MG9rNGNhNThncDQ2ZWE0ODggc2Vhc2djLmNhbEBt)]

 

 



 

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