Shelby Bradford in The Scientist:
Viraj Muthye is a bioinformatician at Alberta Precision Laboratories and the cofounder of the Creative Science Alliance. Whether he is crunching data or communicating science, his goal is to tell a good story. For him, a big part of science storytelling is having the right visuals. From the lab to the broader community, Muthye uses artistic principles to translate complex science into meaningful insights through data visualization.
Why is data visualization important in research?
I believe that visualizations translate data into a story. When I took a Google course on data analytics, I realized how much of a gap there was between bioinformaticians—who often have a lot of data but focus mostly on just showing the outcomes—and data analysts—who think much more about communicating the information to an audience. I learned a lot of ways to actually visualize data, which I now use to create websites for researchers who don’t have a bioinformatics background and would struggle to interpret their data otherwise.
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