We’re happy to share this collection of webinars hosted by the Data Community of Practice! Coordinated by the Visual Resource Generation Task Force, these sessions explore exciting topics like working with Parkinson’s disease (PD) data, new software toolboxes, career development, and open science practices. We keep this list updated as we hold new sessions, so stay tuned for the next one!
| Webinar | Theme / Topic | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Networking as a Tool for Career Development | networking and career development | Focuses on networking and career development for up-and-coming scientists. |
| Getting Started with Parkinson’s Disease Data | accessing PD data | How to get started with PD datasets including PPMI, GP2, AMP-PD, and Fox Insight. |
| Digital Phenotyping with PDkit - Open Source Software for Analysis of Wearables and Mobile App Data | wearables and software | Overview of PDkit, a Python-based open source data science toolkit to support data-driven systems using smartphones and wearables. |
| Conducting Novel and Replicative Analyses of PPMI Imaging Data with the LivingPark Tool | data analysis and PPMI | LivingPark-utils enables users to directly pull PPMI data and conduct novel or replicative analyses within Jupyter notebooks. |
| A Phenoclustering Analysis of PPMI Data for PD Subtyping | data analysis and subtyping | How to build a machine learning pipeline to uncover subtypes of Parkinson’s disease within the PPMI dataset. |
| Open Science Guide: An Online Book for Transparent and Reproducible Data Science Projects in Parkinson’s Disease | open science | A primer on open science principles for Parkinson’s disease researchers across all levels of expertise. |
| Parkinson’s Insight Engine: An Open-source, Python-based pipeline for multimodal data analysis in Parkinson’s disease | data analysis and software | A comprehensive pipeline which automates the entire machine learning workflow for researchers working with PPMI data. |
| Research on Display - Tools and Principles for Effective Posters and Talks | scientific communication | Panel discussion sharing experience, expertise, and tips in displaying and communicating scientific concepts and research findings. |
| Patient-Centered Research in the Age of Big Data - Practical Strategies for Non-Clinician Scientists | patient-centered research | How to keep the patient as the focal point of PD research, particularly in the era of big data and algorithmic advancements. |
| Associations Between Soccer Participation, TBI, and PDRD | head trauma and PD | Investigating the associations between soccer play, traumatic brain injury, and self-reported parkinsonism and PD. |
| Performing analysis in admixed populations: lessons from LARGE-PD | genetic admixture | Discusses the unique challenges and opportunities of performing genetic analyses in admixed populations. |
| Investigation of Surrogate Imaging Markers for Early Diagnosis and Risk Stratification in Parkinson’s Disease | neuroimaging and biomarkers | How neuroimaging techniques assist in biomarker detection and validation for earlier disease diagnosis and risk stratification. |
| From real-life wearable data to digital biomarkers for Parkinson’s disease: introducing the ParaDigMa toolbox | wearables and software | An open-source, device-agnostic Python toolbox with validated pipelines to quantify behavior and movement from continuous wrist sensor data. |
| Getting the best out of MDS rating scales | MDS rating scales | How to best use MDS scales, implement them in study designs, and interpret the resulting data. |