presenting research findings with visuals

EDIT 9990DR . T J KOPCHA

MARCH 06 , 2012

Presenting Research Findings with Visuals

Spring 2012EDIT 9990: Information Design

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There’s an app for that…

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What the Font?

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Clear

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Organizing the Toolbox

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Organizing the Toolbox

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Organizing the Toolbox

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Organizing the Toolbox

Researcher

• Place the pictures in chronological order

Theory

• State the theory associated with the researcher

Principle• State a

principle/mode-specific guideline for the theory

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Debrief

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Mayer’s Principles

Boy, that’s a LOT!

(How will you ever read it all?)

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http://www.cogtech.usc.edu/publications/clark_five_common.pdf

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Figures

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Chapter 1:What’s your favorite ‘bad’ example?

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Tonia’s Non-zero Example

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Back to the (Power) Point

Create a visual for one of the research presentations from your group

Illustrate treatment groups in the figure

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Tables

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Table Figure

Tonia’s Dissertation Requirement

TJ’s Table from Article

Original TableAdd SD

Challenge: Find a way to add standard deviations to this table!

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Final Version

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Other Mode-Specific Guidelines

http://www.presentationzen.com/chapter6_spread.pdf

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Where’s CARP?

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Where’s CARP?

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