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Kamis, 28 April 2016

Latest modern science | Link roundup for April 2016 - Si Bejo Science

Lisa Rost has a nice overview of colour tools to help with data visualizations. Some have appeared on the blog before, but this is a great summary.

MarkMaker bills itself as an automated logo designer (backstory here). It�s fun to look at, but I was unimpressed with the first suggestions:

I stayed with it, trying a few favourites and deleting ones I didn�t like. I was still baffled by this suggestion after a few rounds:

I suppose it might have a certain utility in getting you out of ruts, but I�m not convinced it has much more utility than randomly picking fonts in your graphics editor. Hat tip to Doctor Becca.

DrugMonkey reports from the floor of the joint American Society of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics Experimental Biology meeting:

Saw a poster with Supplemental Materials today at #aspet #expbio #eb2016 � this is where we are people.

I... wait... what? As Clay Clark asked:

On back side of the poster?

Let me make this clear:

That�s dumb. Do not do that.

We hear about viral images on the internet, but most don�t look this amazing. Even if they didn�t move, they would still be stunning scientific visualizations.

Kamis, 10 Maret 2016

Latest modern science | Worst poster viewer - Si Bejo Science

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�I don�t have a question so much as a comment...�

Dave Levitan at Slate looks at the phenomenon of why people use question time at the end of presentations to not ask questions.

�My question is the following statement� is the bane of any sane conference-goer�s existence. Any conference, panel, lecture, seminar, symposium, and so on, in any possible field you can imagine, can be the setting for this crime against humanity. The tendency of audience members to stand up and speechify rather than simply ask is remarkably widespread?�?anecdotally, everyone I know says they see it all the time, and everyone says they hate it.

There�s no single, simple answer why people do this, but it got me wondering: is there an equivalent behaviour in a poster session?

Oral presentations are designed to be a one time spiel by one speaker to many audience members, but a poster is designed to be shown many times to a small audience that comes and goes. An oral talk rarely offers the the opportunity for dialogue that a poster presentation does.

But in both formats, some audience members who will listen quietly while the presenter speaks. A few will interject questions as the talk goes along.

I can�t remember any time in a poster presentation where someone who I did not know wandered up to my poster and just made statements about unrelated things that had nothing to do with the poster.

I do realize, however, that my experience is limited. I�m a pretty tall, old guy, which can have the effect of filtering out a lot of interactions from other conference goers.

Has anyone encountered the �My question is the following statement� behaviour at a poster presentation? If not, what is the most annoying thing that a poster viewer has done to you in a poster presentation?

I think mine might be the poster viewer who just won�t leave.

Update: Here are answers to #WorstPosterViewer from Twitter:

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My Question Is the Following Statement

Kamis, 09 Juli 2015

Latest modern science | Make this your working title for every poster - Si Bejo Science

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When you�re laying out your poster, instead of typing in the title you put in your abstract, put this:

�No one has to read this crap.�

Frame grab from this interview with Ed Yong. Ed has this posted above his desk as advice for freelancers, but the advice is equally appropriate for poster makers.

Nobody owes your their time at a conference. Nobody has to stop at your poster. Nobody has to talk to you.

Let that harsh realization guide your editing and design to make something that another person, who is not you, who is not invested in the project, wants to read.

Update, 1 October 2015: This quote apparently originated with Tim Radford. (Radford�s rule #6.)

Kamis, 05 Maret 2015

Latest modern science | Are posters a visual aid, or a stand alone document? - Si Bejo Science

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Jason McDermott has an excellent question:

SciTweeps - which camp are you in? The A) �poster as a visual aid to a presentation w/minimal text� or B) �poster as a complete manuscript�?

There are some definition issues here. When I hear �manuscript,� I think that implies a journal article. That, to my mind, is way too detailed and too much stuff. A poster is not be a journal article and should not necessarily follow its conventions.

The other part of option B, though, is �complete.� As I�ve said before, a poster should be self-contained. It should present a complete narrative that does not need a speaker to guide you through it or explain it. A poster should be more than just a billboard or decoration; a poster should have substance.

I am intrigued by the responses. Most responses favoured minimalism.

I prefer (A), but there should be enough text for the reader to understand the results without you being there - Kelsey Wood

A, always A - Auriel Fournier ?

A. Always! That's the difference between a poster and a journal article. Posters are for work in progress. Publish once done - Matthias Lein ?

The contrary point of view is interesting, though:

I don�t want your song-and-dance routine, I want your data; plus, what if you're not there when I am? - Bill Hooker

90% A, 10% B. (Some things really need text.) - Chemjobber

Depends on venue. If you never leave poster, A. Otherwise, needs enough B for people to critically evaluate. - Peter Thompson

Noah wanted to dig deeper:

Can�t we split the difference? C) "poster as cues to provoke interesting questions, answer boring ones."

And from there the conversation went all Game of Thrones:

We already suffer about as much carnage as G.R.R. Martin�s characters - and about as much job security. - Jason McDermott

�The red conference� - noah ?

Book 1: �A trial of tenure.� Book 2: �A lack of funding� - Francois Gould ?

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Picture by char booth on Flickr; used under a Creative Commons license.

Kamis, 05 Februari 2015

Latest modern science | Don�t get mad, get playful - Si Bejo Science

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Most people want to give talks at conferences instead of posters. David Schulz was denied the opportunity to give a talk, he was mad. His anger drove him to �go there� in poster design � and the result was a roaring success.

Let�s break it down and look at some of the elements that gave him such success.

First, he has balloons. Balloons! Not only does looking at them make you reflexively smile, they act like a highway sign for his poster. The balloons will be visible from almost anywhere in the poster hall, rising above the horizon. People will see them and wonder what they�re for, and might wander over to have a peek.

When they get there, the viewer is invited to play a little game:

You can get the answer by lifting the flaps. It�s very hard to resist interacting with the poster now, because it almost captures some of the feel of a pop-up book. I�ve shown a few examples of other �pop up� panels and flipbooks, and this falls into that category.

The answers are also written on the handouts that David has on the table. This encourages people to pick them up, and makes them more likely to take them away, which means more connections between David and the people who saw his poster.

Looking at David�s set-up, I would have liked his poster to be bigger and use more of the available space. I also might have gone for a more subdued colour scheme. But this poster is so good at saying, �Hey! You! Yes, you! Come over here and look at me!� that it clearly overcame some of the weaker elements of its design.

At the end, David said:

(I)t was one of the most engaging scientific activities I had ever done. Given that the average attendance at any given session was less than 100 people (and usually 30-50 people), I received more substantive feedback from people during the poster than the one or two polite questions I would have received had I given an oral presentation. I gave out nearly all my handouts, which meant that I directly interacted with at least as many as would have likely sat passively through an oral presentation.

Never lose sight of what a poster is for. It�s a conversation starter. And this poster did that job admirably.

David�s blog, Eloquent Science, has many other posts about conference posters that I�m just starting to dig into.

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External links

Rethinking Poster Sessions as Second-Class
Proof that a poster can be attractive to an audience

Kamis, 08 Mei 2014

Latest modern science | Hang �em high - Si Bejo Science

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Earlier this year, I wrote about a conference with one of the worst poster session layouts ever: one on top of the other, with the bottom one at crotch level.

Sadly, nobody at my own institution read this, or took the wrong lesson from it:

Posters upon posters, with the top ones so far above eye level as to be almost unreadable. Sigh.

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Kamis, 28 November 2013

Latest modern science | Link roundup for November 2013 - Si Bejo Science

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I�ve featured posters from Michael Barton here and here. Here�s another great description of his process, and the result is this nice poster he did last year. (Hat tip to Sam Evans.)

ScientifFig claims to produce publication ready figures. We�ll see.

Holly Bik looks at dress style. While she frames it in the context of job interviews, it can also apply to times when you're giving a poster presentation.

Peter Tennant has evidence about what going to a conference can do for you. Correlation is not causation, but still...

The Neuroscience conference is the biggest congregation of posters in the world, so here are selected tweets:

Nicky Pentilla ponders travel:

Shoe test for #SfN13: Can I walk the poster floor in them without wincing by the end?

As does Kristen Delevich:

Must stop using my poster tube as a walking stick.

Ed Wilson, Jr., reminds us that you�re there to present, not talk.

It�s incredibly frustrating when presenting author socializes rather than being avail to discuss work during poster session.

Similarly, Taking a Cat Apart asks that you not drop names.

Dude, you really don�t need all the name dropping when you talk me through your poster. It�s cool by itself. Relax.

Phat Ma notes that you should also ask about what isn�t shown on a poster:

I usually get more value from talking to people about the data they aren't showing than from the graphs on the poster.

Drug Monkey has a handout tip:

If you don't have page sized copies of your #SFN13 poster to hand out you are screwing up.

Still, one might go too far. Felipe Gerhard saw an optimistic presenter:

Saw somebody having approximately 500 printed hand-outs of his poster.

Valerie Thompson has presentation advice:

Ask visitors how familiar they are with your work before launching into your spiel, and adjust accordingly.

Unfortunately, Doc Becca found presenters who hadn�t taken heed of Valerie�s advice. Remember, presenters, to get to the point!

Poster spiel in 2 min or my brain starts to drift. Figure it out, folks.

Adam Calhoun reminds you all to show up to your session!

Worm community you�re letting me down! I went to three C. elegans posters this afternoon, and one had no presenter while other two posters totally missing!

This might be music to the ears of Bob Graybeard, who indulges in imposteration: