How to Make Your Figures Pop: Colormaps

Name: How to Make Your Figures Pop: Colormaps
Start: 2025-10-09T11:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-10-09T11:45:00-04:00
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Training/Workshop Programming Languages Research & Data Analysis Undergraduate Research

Thu, Oct 9, 2025

11 AM – 11:45 AM EDT (GMT-4)

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This workshop is a guide to the best use of colormaps when representing data. We will cover what makes a colormap bad, how to choose better colormaps, and how to use rainbow colormaps more thoughtfully.

Session format: Presentation and demonstration

Knowledge prerequisites: None

Hardware/software prerequisites: None

Target audience: Students, researchers, faculty, staff

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Speakers

Carolina Roe-Raymond

Visualization Analyst

Princeton University

Carolina Roe-Raymond is a Visualization Analyst in Research Computing at Princeton University. As a Visualization Analyst, Carolina helps Princeton faculty, staff, and students explore and communicate their data through graphs, charts, and other visuals. Prior to her current position, Carolina created static and interactive data visualization applications for academic research groups. Carolina has a Ph.D. in Resource Ecology and Management, where she used visualizations created in R and GIS programs to advance research in urban bee ecology.

Matt Coleman

Performance Tuning Analyst, Research Computing

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