Visualization matters

We use this repo to polish our ability in designing pretty diagrams for papers, posters, thesis and so on. We plan to do the practice and meet periodically. The resulting designs will be collected into appropriate libraries for future reuse.

Books

• Scientific Visualization: Python + Matplotlib

Tools

Interactive visualization tools

• Falx
• UpSet2
• py-upset
• UpSet

Bayesnet and other graphical models

• TikZ Bayesnet library
• GraphViz
• Graph Visualization
• Graphical model visualization

Alternatives for Adobe Illustrator (non-free).

• Diagram as Code
• diagrams
• Inkscape
• vecteezy
• Pixlr
• LucidChard

NN Visualization

• ManimML
• Plot Neural Networks
• Designing DNN
• Visualizing ML
• Visualizing Embeddings
• Designing DNN
• Other DNN design tools

Mindmaps

• A Free Online Diagram Tool Allowing Co-editing
• Free Mind: a Free Offline Mind Mapping Tool
• Mind Meister: an Online Mind Mapping Tool
• Sketchboard: an Online Mind Mapping Tool

Libraries

• D3.js: JavaScript library for manipulating documents based on data
• R visualization

Video Editting

• Video Editting
• OBS

Papers

• MERLOT: Multimodal Neural Script Knowledge Models
• Understanding the Role of Individual Units in a Deep Network

Blog

• Visualization of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics
• Falx: Synthesis-powered Visualization Authoring
• Software to draw graphical models in plate notation
• Communicating with Interactive Articles
• Information is Beautiful

Website Style & Themes:

• Jekyll Pygments Themes
• a simple whitespace theme for academics
• Katex: The fastest math typesetting library for the web
• The github status card
• Github Profile Readme

Tips:

• If you are using Power Point, one way to avoid low quality images in Power Point is to go to File->Compress Pictures->Picture quality and set it to 'Use Original'.