Evidence presentations: At the leading edge of serious practice

This thread will discuss high-level, intense, serious, non-routine evidence presentations. Our first three examples are from Nature and from the Enron trial.

P. Martin Sander, Octávo Mateus, Thomas Laven, Nils Knötschke, “Bone histology indicates insular dwarfism in a new Late Jurassic sauropod dinosaur,” Nature, 441 (2006 June 8), 739-741.

Then below, my redesigned illustrations eliminate the captions by building them into the illustration (why go to a special separate place on the page for words?), use direct labels to avoid the stupid and inconvenient letter code, eliminate the codes for names the illustrations, gray down certain elements to create a cartographic layering effect, fix the typography, and enhance the scales of measurement. The idea is to treat annotated illustrations as paragraphs of evidence, not as special occasions to segregate evidence by the mode of production. These changes took about an hour in Photoshop and Quark.