Watercolour, oil pastel and marker
©2020 Charlene Brown
The inspiration for this painting was the Three
Minute Thesis Competition – one of the
most popular events at the University of Victoria’s annual Ideafest. This competition
challenges Master's and PhD students to describe their research “in a clear,
engaging and jargon-free presentation using just one slide - in 180 seconds.”
The graduate students’ single slides are properly
annotated and labeled, but this painting of ‘Just One Slide’ is more of a ‘visualization’
and it’s going to have to speak for itself. I will just say it is a predictive
analysis of three policy alternatives in transitioning off fossil fuels, and it
uses data visualization rather than rigorous algorithms. Data
visualization distills large data sets into visual graphics to make it easier to
understand complex relationships and predict trends
