Date Thursday, 27 March
Time 09:00 – 16:30
Dr. Steve Horne Silixa Ltd UK
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If you care about science communication you must care about how data is visualized!
Effective data visualizations provide new and rapid insights that text and speech struggle to convey. And yet few people are taught how to plot data during their scientific careers. For many of us the education stopped at âmake sure you label your axesâ. But there is so much more to learn if we want to spread our messages clearly and efficiently to a new audience.
This course is all about understanding what makes a great data visualization great, and how bad visualizations can confuse and deceive â sometimes intentionally.
The course will include historical reviews of pivotal visualizations by William Playfair, Florence Nightingale and Edward Tufte. We will also discover the first periodic table was actually provided by a geologist!
At the end of this course you will understand how to make an effective scientific data visualization from your data.
Upon completion of the course, participants will be able to:
The course will begin with a motivation on why data visualization matters. The instructor will show good, bad and ugly visualizations and dissect these to understand what makes a good data visualization and how some plots deceive – sometimes intentionally!
Next, the instructor will take a fast historical tour taking in pivotal plots from, among others, Florence Nightingale, William Playfair, John W. Tukey and Edward Tufte. There will be a deep dive into human colour perception to discuss issues around colour vision deficiencies and how we can reach a wider audience by a careful choice of colours.
On the theme of human visual perception Dr. Steve Horne will review pre-attentive attributes and the Gesthalt principles and how these can be employed in charts. Horne will pay particular attention to line charts, pie chart and why 3D effects should only be used with caution.
The last taught session will review typefaces (fonts), tables and file formats before moving to a practical session where participants will be asked to choose a plot, identify any short comings and then redesign it based on the principles we have learnt during the day.
Course topics include
1) Why data visualization matters
2) Short History
3) Human Vision
4) Colour Palettes
5) Preattentive attributes & Gesthalt principles
6) Line charts, Pie & Donut Charts, 3D effects
7) Typefaces,
8) Tables & Layouts
9) File formats (JPEG, PNG, SVG etc)
10) Visualization makeover
Recommended reading:
1. Tufte, E. 1983. The Visual Display of Quantitative Information. Graphics Press USA.
2. Cairo, A. 2016. The Truthful Art: Data, Charts, and Maps for Communication. New Riders.
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Prof. Dr Dominique Guérillot, former member of the Executive Committee of IFP and Program Director for the Upstream R&D of Saudi Aramco, he is focusing in Oil and Gas Exploration and Production including Unconventional, CO2 EOR and Carbon storage. After a PhD in Applied Mathematics, he joined IFP in 1982 in the Reservoir Engineering Dpt.
He started his career in the Exploration and Production sector developing Expert system for selecting EOR methods and Advanced Compositional Reservoir Simulators for EOR (CO2 and thermal methods).
In 1985, he began cooperating with geologists and he invented with the Paris School of Mines the first software package integrating reservoir characterization and flow simulations in porous media proposing innovative methods for upscaling absolute permeabilities.
After being the Director of the Geology and Geochemistry (95-01, in 2001, he became member of the Executive Committee of IFP and Managing Director of Exploration and Reservoir Engineering Centre with a total budget of 30 Millions of Euros. Consequently, IFP nominated him as board member of several Exploration and Production subsidiaries of IFP: Beicip-Franlab and RSI in France, IFP MEC in Bahrain, etc. He developed new strategic orientations for the business unit he was in charge modifying its business model to generate revenues based on royalties through the development of several strategic marketed software for IFP.
In 2009, he created a Young Innovative Company (YIC), Terra 3E, in Energy and Environment: http://www.Terra3E.com developing innovative plug-ins in Petrel software among which the first tool for accurate calculations of fluids in place for gas and oil shales and upscaling transmissivities. From 2010 to 2013, he was senior expert for Petrobras, Brazil.
In 2012, he served the European Commission for selecting R&D projects on CO2 Storage. In 2013, Qatar Petroleum called Dominique Guérillot for developing their R&D Centre at the Qatar Sciences and Technology park in Doha, Qatar. He is currently full professor at Texas A&M University in their campus of Qatar.
He published more than 50 full and refereed papers, holds 5 patents, is member of the IJOGCT editorial team, the SPE and EAGE associations, is referee of the Oil & Gas Science and Technology (OGST), and member of the editorial board of the Petroleum Geoscience journal of the Geological Society.