Should we build a shared visual space for training?

Analyzing and Reusing Data
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Hi everyone!

For a recent neurology conference, I had 30 minutes to explain hereditary movement disorders to a general audience. It took me longer to build this figure than the rest of the talk — and that was intentional, because it was the idea behind everything. I structured my whole presentation around it, and the figure became the “take-home message”. Here it is:

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The goal was to show that:

  1. These disorders are very heterogeneous.
  2. Prevalence and genetic contribution can sometimes move in opposite directions.
  3. Knowing both helps decide when to order genetic testing and where to focus research.

That got me thinking — we all create figures like this for talks or publications. What if we had a shared space in Disocurse DCI Resources and Coordination where we could store these training data-visualization material? It could make life easier for others explaining the same concepts, while always acknowledging the author.

I’d love to hear your thoughts, especially from the task-forces data-visualization training

  1. Would something like this be useful?
  2. How could we make it practical and fair in terms of authorship and sharing?
  3. Does anyone volunteer to help lead or coordinate this? get-involved
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we could also share slides too honestly, i am always happy to share my talks and would benefit from others’ goodies as well. i wouldnt expect credit for anything and would be happy for whoever wants to use to benefit from my goodies. it’s not mandated so credit can be flexible with only whoever feels comfortable openly sharing uploading their stuff

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I think this is a great idea!

  1. Yes, absolutely
  2. One idea… maybe something like figshare? It has the option of setting up groups, people can be attributed for their submissions, and they can optionally make DOIs as well
  3. @paularp @vdardov would this be something the visualization task force would be interested in?

@jgottesman What do you think? Would it work to make a figshare group for our community?

Happy to hear other ideas as well!

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