Betsy Mason

Betsy Mason is a freelance writer and editor specializing in science and cartography based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is coauthor with Greg Miller of All Over the Map, an illustrated book published in 2018 about maps and cartography for National Geographic, and the cartography website Map Dragons. Her work appears in numerous publications including National Geographic, Science, Nature, WIRED, Science News, Scientific American, Outside, Discover, and New Scientist.

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Why Scientists Need to Be Better at Data VisualizationScientific literature is riddled with bad charts and graphs. Avoiding design missteps can improve understanding of research.
Wed, 08/12/2020 - 12:03
  This story was originally published by Knowable Magazine. Imagine a science textbook without images. No charts, no graphs, no illustrations or diagrams with arrows and labels. The science would be a lot harder to understand. That's because humans…