Scientific inspiration

This is definitely not a full and thorough list but those are people whose work I very much value and appreciate and who inspire me everyday on my way:

• 3Blue1Brown, Grant Sanderson and his YouTube channel which is in my opinion one of the best math-related channel with extraordinary animations. I would spend hours just admiring the beauty of math and the presentation.
• Dani Krossing who has wonderful tutorials for web development and without whom I would not know how to connect SQL and PHP.

Graphics

Choosing colours for scientific plots

I think that this is one of the hardest problems I always face – which colours and which fonts should I use to make my figure pretty and story-telling at the same time? And how do I do it so that even colour-blind people can read and understand my figures? And what about all the people who print black and white or have e-readers like myself? In my beginnings, I spent hours going over all matplotlib colours to choose the best combinations. And I never knew if I succeeded. Recently, I have read the following article and discovered two tools which helped me a lot. Finally, I can see how my figures will look for colour-blinded fellas or when I will be reading them in B&W. Those are the tools:

• Color oracle
• Coblis (this one works online)

Creating scientific figures

One of the things I love about science is plotting. Making figures, generating beautiful graphs, creating art. I love when I can create an art with just a few lines of code, although most of the time it's more like paragraphs of code. I always hated when I plotted something in my script and then for a big figure I basically had to redo half of it. Then I discovered CanD, a python package capable of producing scientific figures with less friction then pure matplotlib.