Include a brief section on plotting for poor vision and colorblindness?

[anzelpwj]

Hi everyone,

I didn't see any mention of this in closed issues, please accept my apologies if this has already been covered before.

If I had a nickle for every plot I've seen at scientific conferences with the text too small or color-choices that would be unreadable to anyone with red-green colorblindness, I'd probably at least be able to get a cheap coffee.

Would it be worth having a brief call-out that people know to use fontsize/labelsize to change text size, linewidth to increase line size, s to increase scatterplot marker size, and to make sure not to encode information solely in color? We could also include a link to a few color-blindness simulators (example 1, example 2) for people to try.

Let me know!
Paul

[anzelpwj]

Another useful resource: https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003833

[vahtras]

I think it is a great initiative!
Olav

[ntmoore]

I think this would be a very useful addition to the initial plotting section using matplotlib, episode 9. https://github.com/swcarpentry/python-novice-gapminder/blob/gh-pages/_episodes/09-plotting.md

[anzelpwj]

Great! I'll try to draft something within the next couple of days!

[anzelpwj]

Sorry this took me a bit longer to get to than I planned - family obligations. PR is here: #372

[ntmoore]

I think this issue is closed.