{"id":131,"date":"2010-07-28T00:05:37","date_gmt":"2010-07-28T00:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/?p=131"},"modified":"2010-07-27T23:42:25","modified_gmt":"2010-07-27T23:42:25","slug":"color-code-terms-in-equations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/28\/color-code-terms-in-equations\/","title":{"rendered":"Color-code terms in equations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is such a simple and powerful trick, I don&#8217;t know why I hardly ever see it used. When giving an equation during a talk or in a paper, typically that equation is best understood as a series of terms. Those in your audience who are familiar with the terms, like yourself, will instantly recognize them. However, some of your audience won&#8217;t. These people can be helped by a simple color coding scheme. Let me demonstrate:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/colorized-eq1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/colorized-eq1b.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"colorized eq1b\" width=\"600\" height=\"375\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-335\" srcset=\"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/colorized-eq1b.png 600w, http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/colorized-eq1b-300x187.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The color coding saves space and quickly gives an intuitive feel for how the terms should be considered. This &#8220;legend&#8221; can also be a quick way to give ranges for values used in models. Of course, this isn&#8217;t something terribly new, but it should be done more. (equation from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/20110507\">Renart et al. 2010<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is such a simple and powerful trick, I don&#8217;t know why I hardly ever see it used. When giving an equation during a talk or in a paper, typically that equation is best understood as a series of terms. Those in your audience who are familiar with the terms, like yourself, will instantly recognize&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/28\/color-code-terms-in-equations\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[24],"class_list":["post-131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tips","tag-dissemination"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":339,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions\/339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}