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“The greatest value of a picture is when it forces us to notice what we never expected to see.”

— John W. Tukey

This bookdown was created for a 2-hour minicourse on data visualization for students in the 2021 UCSF Science and Health Education Partnership Highschool Internship Program (SEP HIP).

Interns – welcome! You can use this website and all of its resources during and after the workshop.

Anyone else – welcome, also! Feel free to use what you find here for educational purposes. If you do, please cite this book and/or include the URL where you use these resources.

Get in touch – for any reason! I’d love to hear your thoughts and questions, especially if you’ve used or made improvements to these resources over time (so have I!). You can email me at taiawu (at) gmail (dot) com or find me on LinkedIn.

Thank you Sabine Jeske (UCSF SEP Academic Coordinator); Douglas Wassarman (UCSF, CCB Program) for gathering the sample images used in the Types of figures cheat sheet, and for feedback on the resources developed here; Zachary Gale-Day (UCSF, CCB Program) and Dr. Cory Nadel (UCSF) for feedback and advice on the resources developed here, and in particular the content on blots and gels; and Elliot Warner, José Montaño, Matt Callahan, Zachary Gale-Day, and Douglas Wassarman, who helped out during workshop itself.