Fellow machine learning enthusiast Thorsten Kleppe is an expert at producing visualizations of machine learning systems. Thorsten recently sent me a PDF document that he wrote, which has some beautiful examples. Here are a couple:

Here is a link to Thorsten’s PDF:
Modern_Data_Visualization_by_Thorsten_Kleppe

(I renamed his original PDF file name slightly to Modern_Data_Visualization_by_Thorsten_Kleppe.pdf because my blog software didn’t like the original title for some reason).

Thorsten’s paper talks about the effect of color and hue choices, dealing with background lines, working with opacity, line size, line shape, and more.

If you have any questions, Thorsten can be reached at thorsten.kleppe@gmail.com.