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Cara Thompson
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Data visualisation consultant with an academic background, helping others maximise the impact of their expertise
That's a wrap for the #dataviz workshop I've been leading for the Nordic Society of Human Genetics and Precision Medicine's 2025 conference in Copenhagen.

In the run up to the conference, I was sent a plot which it typical in the field (and published in one of the Nature journals). Here's my redo.
June 2, 2025 at 4:47 PM
It's pretty wild what you can do with geom_text(), transparency, and some careful rescaling of superimposed images at different rates.

Here's an extract from a video I'll post more about tomorrow. One of the most challenging projects I've had the privilege of working on.
February 18, 2025 at 8:47 PM
"I really like the overall look, but I'm finding it hard to tell the difference between the turquoise and the green - is it possible to redo all the graphs with a different colour?"

A happy reminder of the joy of setting up colours sensibly when creating dataviz with #rstats. Thank you past self!
November 22, 2024 at 11:25 AM