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A good graph or chart is readable, accurate, and fair — and it tells a compelling story in support of the text around it. Robin Marwick shared her excellent presentation showing how to recognise the elements of a good graph, analyse a bad graph, and propose improvements that can turn a bad graph into a good one.
About the speaker
Over a 25-year career, Robin Marwick has worked with scientists, healthcare professionals, pharmaceutical companies, hospitals, professional associations, and nonprofit organizations to produce clear, compelling, and reader-friendly information. She read the data visualisation classic How to Lie with Statistics at an impressionable age and has been on the lookout for bad graphs and dodgy data ever since. She is a certified Editor in the Life Sciences and a Certified Professional Editor through Editors Canada's certification program.
