[thesis swamp] look upon my works, ye mighty

[kaberett]

I do not particularly care to confess to any or all of (i) how long this took me, (ii) how much longer I'm considering spending on it, and (iii) what I should arguably have been doing instead for the last several days. Nevertheless: BEHOLD.



[A graph showing Tl concentration and isotope ratios for lavas from the Aleutian arc (Nielsen et al. 2016), Mariana arc (Prytulak et al. 2013, 2017), Ryukyu-Okinawa arc [circles] and back-arc basin [diamonds] system (Shu et al. 2017), Tonga-Kermadec arc (Nielsen et al. 2017), and Central American Volcanic Arc (Nielsen et al. 2017). For oceanic arcs (left) "C." = "Central"; "M." = "Middle"; "v.f." = "volcanic front". For the CAVA (right), "C." = "Cerro". The dotted line on Tl isotope ratio panels indicates estimated average mantle ε²⁰⁵Tl (= -2 ± 1). Error bars are smaller than symbols except for low-concentration samples, where I need to look up uncertainties and edit them in, sob.]

Comments

[kaberett]

Things I know I need to fix:

• C. del Cemeterio spacing
  
• Raoul Group spacing
  
• spacing between 1 and -15 on the x-axes up top
  
• colours for the CAVA :|

[ghoti]

This is a lovely graph.

[kaberett]

Thank you <3

[jesse_the_k]

Very impressive graph!

Is wrangling typesetting (latex, I assume) just one more thing you have to do for your degree?

[kaberett]

I mean, I could do everything In MS Word (or LibreOffice Writer), but honestly that would be so much more miserable that I'm very glad I made a point of Learning LaTeX as part of a summer project... just about a decade ago, in fact!

Long gone are the days of writing everything longhand and then passing it off to a wife or secretary to type up. :-p

(This plot, like all of mine these days, is made in veusz, which supports at least some LaTeX-like markup!)

[jesse_the_k]

You nailed it: my mother typed up all my father’s papers (until he got enough whuffie to access the department typist).

Though I can imagine a person making a decent living transforming sketched tables into Latex. (I typeset a lot of resumes back in the early 80s before laser printers were widely available.)

[booksarelife]

That is a very lovely figure, and looks very straightforward and useful and also nice to look at

[nanila]

Not only is it clear and easy to read, it is also beautiful. I applaud you!

[kaberett]

<3 Thank you! Learning To Make Nice Figures was absolutely an explicit goal I came into the PhD with, and it's enormously satisfying to have achieved it.

[silveradept]

That's a good graph. Very visually appealing.

[kaberett]

Thank you!

[fyreharper]

I don’t have enough brain to make sense of the chart right now but yay pretty rainbow colors!

[kaberett]

Honestly the contents aren't very interesting if you're not one of about 10 people, all of whom I can name! Thank you <3