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Constructing and interpreting meaningful and useful graphical representations of data. (If your question is only about how to get particular software to produce a specific effect, then it is likely not on topic here.)
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Any tips to differentiate zero and non-zero values on a map with a continuous color scale?
It sounds like you are coloring points, not areas. If so, you could distinguish exact 0s from near-0s by the plotting character's point shape or border color. For example:
Exact 0s are square; near-0 …
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Most effective use of colour in heat/contour maps
In the time since the other answers were written in 2012, there have been other proposed color schemes. I personally recommend "viridis" and its associated color schemes, designed to be perceptually u …
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Appropriate visualizations for exploring count data
In addition to the other great answers (use vertical jitter and transparency aka alpha to deal with overplotting!), you could consider 2d binning. It's a 2d analogue to a histogram.
In your case, only …
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Should the y-axis on a survival plot go from 0 to 100 even if the lines are all above 0.9?
Bar charts should start at 0*, because the lengths of the bars (distances from top to bottom of each bar) are what your eye compares.
But for line charts (whether survival or any other), there's no ha …
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Modern successor to Exploratory Data Analysis by Tukey?
Claus Wilke's 2019 book "Fundamentals of Data Visualization" is another possible "modern successor." The book's preprint is still freely available online.
Like Tukey's EDA, Wilke's book is focused on …
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What is the best way to visualise a panel regression?
Specific to panel data: You may want to assign color to year. Since year has a natural ordering, choose a sequential color scheme so that it's easy to tell which points are from earlier vs later years …