This lecture covers three core concepts of visual communication. First, I will discuss how to engage your audience by telling a story. Second, I will provide high-level guidance for designing visualizations that make a clear point. Third, I will describe key design principles that ensure your figures will be readable by people with vision impairments, specifically impairments of color perception.
Claus Wilke is the Jane and Roland Blumberg Centennial Professor in Molecular Evolution at The University of Texas at Austin. He holds a PhD in Theoretical Physics from the University of Bochum in Germany, and he received postdoctoral training in biological physics in the lab of Chris Adami at Caltech. He has published extensively in the areas of computational biology, evolutionary biology, protein biochemistry, and virology. He has also authored several popular R packages used for data visualization, such as cowplot, ggridges, and ggtext, and he is a regular contributor to the package ggplot2.
