I recommend reading a series of academic journal articles on data visualization from Nature Methods (http://blogs.nature.com/methagora/2013/07/data-visualizatio

I recommend reading a series of academic journal articles on data visualization from Nature Methods (http://blogs.nature.com/methagora/2013/07/data-visualization-points-of-view.html http://blogs.nature.com/methagora/2013/07/data-visualization...)