Presentation on Making Plots and Diagrams for Presentations, Papers, and Theses

Presentation on making plots and diagrams for presentations, papers, and theses. The primary audience, at the present time, is undergraduate and graduate students in STEM fields. The source for the presentation, its diagrams, and the Jupyter/IPython notebook to make the plots are at the provided GitHub link and are licensed CC BY 4.0. The abstract is below Plots and diagrams are a common visual means of conveying information in scientific talks, papers, and theses. A good plot or diagram conveys the desired information clearly and in a way that gives understanding that would be lacking in a table or description giving the same information by itself. In addition, the plot or diagram should be understandable to people with various types of colorblindness, when printed on a printer (color or greyscale), or shown on a projector. A bad plot or diagram can serve as a distraction and cause confusion, or be otherwise difficult to read. This presentation will show how to make plots and diagrams more clear and readable. In addition, computer and printing considerations will be discussed. These include screens and projectors, printers, image formats, fonts, and available software for plotting, making diagrams, and making presentations

本课件聚焦于演示文稿、学术论文与学位论文所需的绘图与图表制作。当前目标受众为理工科（STEM）领域的本科及研究生。本课件、配套图表及用于绘图的Jupyter/IPython笔记本的源文件已上传至指定GitHub链接，采用CC BY 4.0协议进行许可。
如下为课件摘要：
在学术报告、论文及学位论文中，图表是传递信息的常用可视化手段。优质的图表能够清晰传递目标信息，让受众获得仅通过表格或纯文字描述无法达成的理解效果。此外，图表需适配各类色弱、色盲人群，支持彩色或灰度打印，且可在投影仪上清晰展示。劣质图表则可能分散受众注意力、引发误解，或存在可读性不佳的问题。
本课件将讲解如何提升图表的清晰度与可读性，同时探讨计算机与打印相关的适配要点，涵盖屏幕与投影仪、打印机、图像格式、字体，以及绘图、制图表与制作演示文稿的可用软件。