The seventh Exchange Workshop will be dedicated to Data Visualization and Scientific Sketching, two (related) skills of great importance in research work. Lucas Schneeberger and Alberto Marín will help us along as moderators/instructors this time.
What is the XW7 about?
XW7 is about sharing your best practices, examples and counterexamples included, on how to explore and analyze data graphically. We all face the challenge of analyzing experimental or simulation data, trying to see if it all makes sense or not, and identify key observations that can make it into a new scientific contribution. This is quite different from composing the final visualizations to be included in a thesis or paper, which we will also talk about. The focus is not on specific tooling, but on the best tricks and workflows to do data exploration and presentation effectively and efficiently.
Finally, a related topic is how to best create small sketches (of experimental setups, workflows, etc) that are essential to communicate your work in conferences and papers. We will put together and discuss what tools work best in each use case, and spend a bit of time looking at Tikz/PGFPlots as an example of how to do simple sketches directly in latex.
What do you need to prepare in advance?
In this case, there is no need to prepare anything: all you need to bring is a laptop.
The Workshop details are the following:
- Title: Data visualization and scientific sketching
- Date: March 23, 2026, 14:30-17:00
- Location: Room 1.2G04
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