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2 - Communicating Science Visually

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 April 2021

Tara Ivanochko
Tara Ivanochko
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University of British Columbia, Vancouver
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Summary

Communicating science is difficult. The challenge is to effectively summarize scientific results in a clear and informative way. Science is based on collecting empirical data (usually numbers) and often uses very long lists of numbers or spreadsheets with multiple columns and rows called “tables.” Though it is extremely important to make the raw data (the original lists of numbers) publicly available, raw data presented as such is not easy to absorb or understand.

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Think, Do, and Communicate Environmental Science , pp. 22 - 33
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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  • Communicating Science Visually
  • Tara Ivanochko, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
  • Book: Think, Do, and Communicate Environmental Science
  • Online publication: 23 April 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108526104.004
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  • Communicating Science Visually
  • Tara Ivanochko, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
  • Book: Think, Do, and Communicate Environmental Science
  • Online publication: 23 April 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108526104.004
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  • Communicating Science Visually
  • Tara Ivanochko, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
  • Book: Think, Do, and Communicate Environmental Science
  • Online publication: 23 April 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108526104.004
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