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Are you nervous before giving a presentation? This deck explains why are we afraid of public speaking and offers some tips to cope with presentation anxiety. Via Baiba Svenca 
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How to drive home your science with a visually pleasing poster
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Almost all rules about aesthetics are bunk. But you must crawl before you can walk. So these are as good a set of suggestions as any else to start cralwing with.
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I stumbled across a very interesting infographic today that I had to share. It details reasons why resumes (commonly known as CVs overseas) are rejected. As I reviewed it, I speculated how closely it mirrored the attitude of recruiters here in the good ol’ USA. My guess is that their reasons for rejecting a resume is pretty similar to ours.
PIRatE Lab's insight:
It is a great idea to start looking over examples of effective resumes.
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Mapping L.A. is the Los Angeles Times’ resource for maps, boundaries, demographics, schools and news in Los Angeles County.
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Another nice example of a map-based quantiative display of data.
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Test your Web browser and fonts for the ability to display the Unicode Enclosed Alphanumerics range of characters. Part of Alan Wood’s Unicode Resources.
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These number-inside-circles characters are often helpful in posters and diagrams, but can be hard to find.
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This is an example of the alternative presentation platform.
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Research conducted as part of an undergraduate UCLA course published by online science journal Cities and the Environment
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Example of what a group capstone project can do. You guys can do a project at least as good as this one!
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How to analyze data and prepare graphs for you science fair project.
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Hacking Excel for graphs.
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Learn how to use LinkedIn for personal networking and marketing in this ultimate cheat sheet of tips.
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Tips for beginning to used the professional social networking site LinkedIn. Join my ESRM Jobs group to see my notices of job postings.
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A global study found students that are mediocre at science think they're better than they are.
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Confidence, not arrogance is what you are all striving for.
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The web is absolutely chock-full of colour scheme tools that promise to help you reach colour nirvana. Not all tools are created the same, though, and many are no more than basic rip-offs of the more popular or useful offerings.
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Good tool for picking your color schemes.
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This video clearly describes the distribution of wealth in America using a set of transitioning charts. The graphics are good. The explanation is better.
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Great example of a video-based display of quantiative data.
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Galileo was a great scientist partly because he wasn't afraid to admit when he was wrong, argues Adam Gopnik, who only wishes some of the people who write to him could do the same.
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Failure and being wrong are all part of the journey.
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The coastline of the Maddalena peninsula (south-eastern Sicily, Italy) is characterised by the occurrence of a boulder field associated to an extended soil stripping area and by a gravel/sandy berm. The accumulation of the boulders has been mostly correlated to the impact of ...
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Cool tool some of you are using for your capstone mapping.
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Using the Flesch-Kincaid readability test the Guardian has tracked the reading level of every State of the Union
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Another example of a great quantiative data display.
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It’s a familiar scene: four o’clocks week in Linderman Library and, in the reading room, you can hear a pin drop. Every flat space imaginable is being used to spread out books, notes and copiously long study guides. Students have been parked here since well before dinner. They will remain here until the telling alarm rings for the 2 a.m. close.
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I trust that you all will not resort to exotic and possibly brain-altering chemicals in a bid to meet some academic timeline.
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An example of how students can improve one another's writing via peer review.
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This is a nice compilation of the formats/sizes of various plotter paper options.
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Statistician John Chambers, the creator of S and a core member of R, talks about how R came to be in the short video below. Warning: Super nerdy waters ahead.
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The beginnings of the open-source, free statistical and graphing platform.
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Find Free Stock Photos With Unprecedented Precision Looking for free pictures of places, people, animals, and other things? Stop and explore Ookaboo, a collection of free images organized around precisely defined concepts.
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We've scoured the web to present you with a fine and varied selection of free fonts. Including scripts, serifs, and a range of ligatures, these fonts will give you greater flexibility in your designs, and add to your arsenal of design tools. This list represents the 100 best free fonts we've found in a variety of styles.
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Great selection of fonts for presentations.
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