Book contents
- Think, Do, and Communicate Environmental Science
- Think, Do, and Communicate Environmental Science
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Prologue
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I Thinking Environmental Science
- Chapter 1
- Chapter 2
- 2 Communicating Science Visually
- Chapter 3
- Chapter 4
- Part II Doing Environmental Science
- Part III Communicating Environmental Science
- Epilogue
- Appendix: Working in Excel
- Glossary
- Index
- References
2 - Communicating Science Visually
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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 April 2021
Book contents
- Think, Do, and Communicate Environmental Science
- Think, Do, and Communicate Environmental Science
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Prologue
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I Thinking Environmental Science
- Chapter 1
- Chapter 2
- 2 Communicating Science Visually
- Chapter 3
- Chapter 4
- Part II Doing Environmental Science
- Part III Communicating Environmental Science
- Epilogue
- Appendix: Working in Excel
- Glossary
- Index
- References
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 - 33Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021
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