David McCandless has some wonderful ideas about how to display data – the visual impact of his ways to present huge amount of numeric data as pictures is amazing. But so is the potential for misuse – giving the wrong impression from the data – and the pictures will prevent data mining. The eye is [...]

I am with about 150 people interested in “science communication on-line” at the British Library in London this week. Journals are all about the communication of science results, and the not-for-profit charity that owns us, The Annals of Botany Company, is dedicated to the dissemination of botanical knowledge. So it is critical that we are [...]