This week’s “Wit and Wisdom” post is a guest entry by researcher Fabio Crameri from the Centre for Earth Evolution of Dynamics (CEED), University of Oslo. Many of us are guilty of creating figures using the colours of the rainbow in their full glory – it’s bold, exciting, and justifies the golden data contained within, right? Wrong! As Fabio explains, the rainbow scheme is misleading and should be ...[Read More]
The Rainbow Colour Map (repeatedly) considered harmful
A rough guide to the use of colours - rainbows best left to unicorns with their sparkly data. By Matthew Partridge of ErrantScience.com