Recent & Upcoming
15 December 2019
hitchmas
Happy Hitchmas
Official Hitchmas parties in a pandemic.
Europe party: 9pm GMT
North American party: 9pm EST
10 November 2020
statistics
talk
Rats tasting tea: some statistical issues in preclinical studies
with Naomi Altman
Preclinical Imaging and Testing facility, MIT
5 June 2020
art
music
Gene Machines by Segue
Shifting soundscapes, textures and rhythmic loops produced by laboratory machines. Available on vinyl.
4 May 2020
coronavirus
covid-19
scientific american
visualization
Virus Mutations Reveal How COVID-19 Really Spread
Our graphic depics genetic sequences of the coronavirus reported by laboratories and shows when the virus arrived in each place and where it came from.
With Jen Christiansen, Senior Graphics Editor at Scientific American
20 April 2020
COVID-19
design
visualization
The COVID charts
Brief critiques of data visualization and science communication of the coronavirus outbreak.
4 April 2020
coronavirus
outbreak
poem
The Outbreak Poems
You can now browse the poems by theme.
16 March 2020
coronavirus
outbreak
poem
The Outbreak Poems
Poems in piku form written during the coronavirus outbreak.
6 March 2020
MICB425
lecture
visualization
Turning Tables into Graphics
What's the story and where are the outliers?
25 February 2020
talk
visualization
Putting the form in formalizing
Shonan Meeting 167, Tokyo, Japan
11 February 2020
talk
visualization
workshop
The Essence of Data Visualization in Bioinformatics
Charles Perkins Centre, University of Sydney, Australia
12 February 2020
art
science
talk
Cancer, Pi, Infinity
Charles Perkins Center, University of Sydney, Australia
4 February 2020
talk
visualization
The Essence of Data Visualization in Bioinformatics
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The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
15 December 2019
hitchmas
Happy Hitchmas
Official Hitchmas party at Moretender's Cocktail Bar in Istanbul, 8pm till late
13 December 2019
talk
visualization
Genomes, cancer, infinity.
Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey
8-9 November 2019
talk
visualization
Art is Science in Love
Science: Polish Perspectives (SPP), Cambridge, UK
20 October 2019
talk
visualization
Set visualization in genomics
SetVA at IEEE VIS 2019, Vancouver, BC, Canada
24 October 2019
talk
visualization
Little table, what do you have to say of visualization?
BioVis at IEEE VIS 2019, Vancouver, BC, Canada
10 October 2019
visualization
workshop
Effective visual scientific communication
Exposome Cluster, Michael Smith Laboratories, UBC
2 October 2019
visualization
workshop
Effective visual scientific communication
Hirst Lab, Michael Smith Laboratories, UBC
10 September 2019
visualization
workshop
Effective visual scientific communication
GrasPods welcome week workshop, BCCRC, 12-1pm
19 July 2019
visualization
workshop
Data Visualization and Scientific Communication Workshop, Kobor Lab, BC Children's Hospital Research Institute, Vancouver
7 June 2019
visualization
workshop
Scientific Communication Workshop, Part 2/2, Stewart Blusson Quantum Matter Institute, UBC
30 May 2019
nature methods
points of significance
statistics
Points of Significance: Quantile regression.
Das, K., Krzywinski, M. & Altman, N. (2019) Points of Significance: Quantile regression. Nature Methods 16:451–452.
10 May 2019
visualization
workshop
Scientific Communication Workshop, Part 1/2, Stewart Blusson Quantum Matter Institute, UBC
Part 2/2 scheduled for July 7, 2019
9 April 2019
keynote
visualization
The Art of Data
MBB Graduate Colloquium 2019 (20th anniversary), SFU, Vancouver, Canada.
30 March 2019
art
visualization
wayfinding
DNA on 10th
Science this way! Wayfinding signs on Vancouver's Health Care Corridor (10th Avenue, at Oak Street) (1 June 2019: signs are now lit!)
14-15 March 2019
talk
visualization
Integrative Omics
14th Annual New Mexico BioInformatics, Science and Technology (NMBIST) Symposium, Santa Fe
26 February 2019
lecture
visualization
Essentials of Data Visualization: Thinking about drawing data and communicating science.
MBB462, Simon Fraser University
15 February 2019
MICB425
lecture
visualization
Turning Tables into Graphics
What's the story and where are the outliers?
31 January 2019
UBC
visualization
workshop
Scientific Storytelling and Data Visualization
Faculty of Land and Food Systems, UBC
18 December 2018
scientific american
visualization
Take your medicine ... now
Visualization of the temporal patterns in the expression of 136 cardiac genes.
15 December 2018
hitchmas
Happy Hitchmas
Official Hitchmas party at Oslo's Fuglen, 8pm till late
1 August 2018
talk
visualization
Art is Science in Love
MSFT YVR DataViz Symposium, Microsoft Research, Vancouver
27 July 2018
visualization
workshop
Data Visualization in Epigenetics Reporting Pipelines
Zymo Research, Irvine, CA
1 July 2018
illustration
magazine
visualization
The Whole Earth Cataloguer
Tree of life illustration accompanying the article. Sactown June/July 2018, p.89
20 June 2018
visualization
workshop
Trainee Symposium, BC Children¹s Hospital Research Institute, Van Dusen Gardens, Vancouver
16 March 2018
visualization
workshop
SFU Omics Visualization Workshop
1–4 pm, Library Committee Room 7200, WAC Bennet Library, SFU
14 March 2018
art
math
pi
piday
visualization
2018 `\pi` Day art
Jake Lever and I shrink the world and use the digits of `\pi` to shuffle road maps.
13 February 2018
design
visualization
Information design is data choreography for the page
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University of Sydney, Australia
9 February 2018
design
visualization
Information design is data choreography for the page
DOWNLOAD SLIDES
Westmead Institute for Medical Research, Sydney, Australia
18 December 2017
art
cover
nature
Human versus machine
Making of the 2017 Nature 10 cover: balancing subjective design with objective optimization.
14 Nov 2017
art
visualization
Snowflake simulation
Each simulated snowflake is beautiful and, of course, unique.
2 Nov 2017
art
illustration
visualization
Genes that make us sick
Illustration in 'The Objects that Power the Global Economy' by Quartz.
7 June 2017
benchmark
crossfit
fitness
`k` index fitness benchmark
Perform `k` reps at `k`% 1RM. Expected value is `k=26` and higher values are progressively more difficult to achieve.
31 May 2017
nature methods
points of significance
statistics
Points of Significance: Clustering.
Altman, N. & Krzywinski, M. (2017) Points of Significance: Clustering. Nature Methods 14:545–546.
30 March 2017
nature methods
points of significance
statistics
Points of Significance: Tabular data.
Altman, N. & Krzywinski, M. (2017) Points of Significance: Tabular data. Nature Methods 14:329–330.
14 March 2017
art
math
pi
piday
visualization
2017 Pi Day art
This year, I imagine the digits of `\pi` as a star catalogue and populate the sky with constellations based on extinct species.
21 February 2017
art
chemistry
math
physics
typography
Snellen Optotype Font
The font gets its dedicated page.
20 February 2017
clock
time
Ptolemaic Clock
Updated and named the clock, with contributions from Rodrigo Goya.
24 January 2017
lecture
visualization
Essentials of Data Visualization: Thinking about drawing data and communicating science.
MBB462, Simon Fraser University
29 September 2016
nature methods
points of signficance
statistics
Points of Significance: Regularization.
Lever, J., Krzywinski, M. & Altman, N. (2016) Points of Significance: Regularization. Nature Methods 13:803-804.
19 September 2016
interview
visualization
The Art of Big Data
Interview with Biotechniques' Sarah Webb about the processes, challenges, and skills involved in visualizing large biological data sets. Including Nils Gehlenborg, Jan Aerts and Lennart Martens. Biotechniques 61:107-112 (2016).
26 August 2016
talk
visualization
Communicating Your Science
University of Sydney
29 June 2016
nature methods
points of signficance
statistics
Points of Significance: Logistic Regression.
Lever, J., Krzywinski, M. & Altman, N. (2016) Points of Significance: Logistic Regression. Nature Methods 13:541-542.
21 April 2016
design
science
visualization
Design + Science mixer
10–noon, Art Building, Room 247, University of Washington, Seattle
20 April 2016
talk
visualization
UW Free Public Lecture
7pm, Kane Hall, Room 110, University of Washington, Seattle
14 March 2016
art
math
pi
piday
visualization
2016 Pi Day art
This year, I imagine the digits of Pi as physical masses and collapse them under gravity. The work is featured in Scientific American.
21 January 2016
sanctuary
space
Sanctuary
Our Sanctuary project site goes beta.
15 December 2015
hitchmas
Happy Hitchmas
Official Hitchmas party at Copenhagen's Library Bar. Today at 8pm.