"Living by coast improves health" graphic
It's always nice when one of my colleagues approaches me with some data they're really excited about. In this case it was Dr Ben Wheeler, who had been analysing UK census data, and found a relationship between how close people live to the coast and their self-reported quality of health. It fell to me to try and present the relationship he had found visually - and in a very small space, for publication in a scientific journal. I can talk about the development process now, as the paper has recently been published: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1353829212001220 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-18856680 I knew from the outset that I wanted the resulting figure to look authoritative, given the context of use in a scientific journal. It of course needed to communicate the results accurately and clearly, but I also wanted it to quickly reveal to the reader what the data points were showing them. This is what I had to work with - two bar charts, som