15. Python to make nice figures. Part I: what is a nice figure?
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I wish somebody would have taught me what a nice figure entailed much earlier in my career! In this video, I give you my opinion on what makes a good figure. We cover figure dimensions, insets, multipanel plots, font size, legend placement, tick marks, label formatting, heat maps, microscopy, and more!
Huge props to my PhD advisor, Dr. David Clarke, my postdoc advisor, Dr. Ram Seshadri, and the venerable Dr. Jean-Luc Doumont who all helped craft my ideas. Check out Ram's excellent slides here:
http://www.mrl.ucsb.edu/~seshadri/Pre...
For colors check out colorbrew2.org or the seaborn python library
https://seaborn.pydata.org/tutorial/c...
Figures came from
https://journals.aps.org/prb/abstract...
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1551-2916.2...
https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.200500668
https://link.springer.com/article/10....
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/...
https://doi.org/10.1557/jmr.2019.208
https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemmater...
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11661-016-35...
https://journals.aps.org/prb/abstract...
https://journals.aps.org/prb/abstract...
00:00 what is a good figure?
3:01 bad excel plot
4:46 2-column format figs
5:56 nice figure example
7:52 selecting colors
11:45 insets
13:31 multipanel plots
14:26 micrographs
16:04 good examples