Week 4 day 1

Question 1

What makes a good figure?

Answer 1

Figure isolates the thing we care about, without being misleading.
Ask, “What do I want to say?”.

Good title (describing what the figure is representing) and subtitle (stating the observed relationship).
Clear axes labels, including what larger numbers on x and y represent.

Question 2

When visualising data in a graph, should you always show the whole distribution of data to show outcome variability?

Answer 2

Yes. This allows reader to see and take into account the outcome variability, and not just the inferential statistics.