resources
visualizations
presentations
lunch break
Distractions and amusements, with a sandwich and coffee.
communication + science
Nature Methods: Points of View
Bang Wong is the creative director of the Broad Institute and an adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Art as Applied to Medicine at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
Nils Gehlenborg is a research associate at Harvard Medical School.
Martin Krzywinski is a staff scientist at Canada’s Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre.
Marc Streit is an assistant professor of computer science at Johannes Kepler University Linz.
Cydney Nielsen is a Research Associate at the BC Cancer Research Center.
Rikke Schmidt Kjærgaard is an assistant professor in the Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Center at Aarhus University.
Noam Shoresh is a senior computational biologist at the Broad Institute
Erica Savig is a PhD candidate in Cancer Biology at Stanford University.
Alberto Cairo is a Professor of Professional Practice at the School of Communication of the University of Miami.
Alexander Lex is a postdoctoral fellow in computer science at Harvard University.
Gregor McInerny is a Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford.
Barbara J. Hunnicutt is a research assistant at Oregon Health and Science University.
news + thoughts
Molecular Case Studies Cover
The theme of the April issue of Molecular Case Studies is precision oncogenomics. We have three papers in the issue based on work done in our Personalized Oncogenomics Program (POG).
The covers of Molecular Case Studies typically show microscopy images, with some shown in a more abstract fashion. There's also the occasional Circos plot.
I've previously taken a more fine-art approach to cover design, such for those of Nature, Genome Research and Trends in Genetics. I've used microscopy images to create a cover for PNAS—the one that made biology look like astrophysics—and thought that this is kind of material I'd start with for the MCS cover.
Happy 2018 `\tau` Day—Art for everyone
Universe Superclusters and Voids
A map of the nearby superclusters and voids in the Unvierse.
By "nearby" I mean within 6,000 million light-years.
Datavis for your feet—the 178.75 lb socks
In the past, I've been tangentially involved in fashion design. I've also been more directly involved in fashion photography.
It was now time to design my first ... pair of socks.
In collaboration with Flux Socks, the design features the colors and relative thicknesses of Rogue olympic weightlifting plates. The first four plates in the stack are the 55, 45, 35, and 25 competition plates. The top 4 plates are the 10, 5, 2.5 and 1.25 lb change plates.
The perceived weight of each sock is 178.75 lb and 357.5 lb for the pair.
The actual weight is much less.
Genes Behind Psychiatric Disorders
Find patterns behind gene expression and disease.
Expression, correlation and network module membership of 11,000+ genes and 5 psychiatric disorders in about 6" x 7" on a single page.
Design tip: Stay calm.
More of my American Scientific Graphic Science designs
Gandal M.J. et al. Shared Molecular Neuropathology Across Major Psychiatric Disorders Parallels Polygenic Overlap Science 359 693–697 (2018)