Nature Research Intelligence (NRI) often use networking and dissemination forums such as conferences, and online marketing campaigns to test new, novel ideas for visualisations to better help convey our data and trends hidden within these data.

The topic anatomy visualisations on Nature Navigator topic pages are purposefully very analytical in their nature, allowing users to easily and quickly compare and contrast a range of different '[sub]topic-based' attributes - namely size, measured by number of publications - of interest to readers. However, during planning for producing content for EARMA 2024 we felt NRI would benefit from a softer, more natural-looking version of our topic anatomy created for the conference's 'Public Health' topic.

Having more physical space to use for displaying this alternative form of the topic anatomy visual, allowed us to play around with different orientations and spreads of the topic anatomy tree. We leant on the idea of a tree's natural growth from a central 'seed' point outwards in a dendritic branch formation to indicate and discriminate between different, successive layers of sub-topics to the main topic of 'Public Health'.

Colour and physical size was also used to further enhance and encode the main notions of sub-topics of different sizes - measured by number of publications - and which layer of the topic anatomy a sub-topic resided in.