Solutions for Successful, Impactful Publications
Tired of manuscript rejections? Discover this secret weapon that increases the chances of acceptance by journals.
This specialized course provides actionable solutions for designing clear, visually effective data graphs, strengthening your manuscripts and maximizing their potential for successful and impactful publications.
Why Data Graphs Are Critical
Data graphs are critical components of scientific publications, yet their design is frequently overlooked during manuscript preparation. Poorly designed data graphs undermine readability and diminish the perceived quality of the work, leading to the rejections of editors and peer reviewers.
The Solutions to Well-Drawn Data Graphs
This online course contains the following lessons:
Lesson 1: Visualization
Design data graphs through trial and error?
By mastering the fundamentals of visualization, you will now be able to use scientific methods to design clear, visually effective data graphs.
In this lesson, you will learn:
1.1: Visual search (free access)
1.2: How to make something easily to find (19 diagrams and ∼1400 words)
1.3: How to structure data pattern (19 diagrams and ∼2200 words)
Lesson 2: Color Usage
Confused about selecting and using colors for data graphs?
You will learn how to choose and use color as a powerful tool instead of a decorative element to make the most important data pattern easily perceived.
In this lesson, you will learn:
2.1: Basic knowledge of color (free access)
2.2: How to use color in data graphs (25 diagrams and ∼2800 words)
Lesson 3: Design Data Graphs
You will learn how to design common data graphs like line graphs, bar charts, histograms, box plots, and scatter plots.
In this lesson, you will learn how to design:
3.1: Line graph (14 diagrams and ∼2100 words)
3.2: Bar chart (free access)
3.3: Histogram (7 diagrams and ∼1000 words)
3.4: Box plot (9 diagrams and ∼1100 words)
3.5: Scatter plot (13 diagrams and ∼1500 words)
Lesson 4: Design Figures
You may combine multiple data graphs into a figure panel for publishing in impactful journals like Nature and Science.
In this lesson, you will learn some rules and tricks for designing figure panels.
How to design figure panels (14 diagrams and ∼2300 words)
What You’ll Gain
After learning this course, you will master a powerful system that empowers you to improve the quality of data graphs and manuscripts.
Here are a few examples in the course:
🚀 Escape the rejection by designing data graphs that make editors want your paper.
🔍 Master visual perception principle to highlight and structure data patterns.
🎨 Use color as a tool, not a decoration.
📈 Design data graphs to avoid the mistakes 95% of researchers make (because no one ever taught them better).
Don’t let clumsy data graphs bury your science. Join the course today and start designing clear, visually effective data graphs.
Your next breakthrough deserves to be seen—and published.
About The Author
Hi, I’m Dr. Yiming Cao, the author of this course. I’m a scientific researcher with 10+ years of research and publication experience. I currently work and live in Switzerland. Like many of you, I once relied on intuition and common sense to design data graphs of my manuscripts. When my groundbreaking research kept getting rejected by journals, I realized the harsh truth: poorly designed data graphs undermine even the most robust science. My supervisor and peers never talked about the principles of making clear, visually effective data graphs. Until now, there has been no such course available for researchers.
After years of trial and error, I cracked the code to design data graphs that actually communicate your science. By blending visual perception science, design principles, and storytelling strategies, I turned my rejected manuscripts into high-impact publications—including papers in Nature and Nature Energy. Peer reviewers praised the clarity, and my submissions sailed through review.
This isn’t luck—it’s a repeatable system. And now, I’m sharing it with you.
I’ve poured 1,000+ hours into distilling my hard-won expertise into actionable lessons. While the course isn’t free, consider this: one accepted paper in a top journal could repay this investment 100x over—in funding, collaborations, and career opportunities
The author provides the service of (on-site or remote) training and consulting for individuals and groups.