Data Blitz Resources

Everything you need to run a kickass data blitz at your event.

Contents

• Step by step guide
• Contributors
• License

Step by Step

1. Review (or have your programme committee) review the poster abstracts and rate them.
2. Choose the top 12 abstracts.

• You can, of course, change this number.
• You can also, and I recommend you do, make sure you're showcasing a representative cohort of researchers. You can consider, for example:
  • gender
  • race
  • internal or external delegates

3. Edit the instructions template email with the correct information for your event.

• NAME OF CONFERENCE
• DEADLINE DATE - when you'd like the slides returned by
• DAY of the data blitz
• START TIME of the data blitz
• FINISH TIME of the data blitz
• ATTENDEES - what you call your attendees
• DAY BEFORE THE BLITZ - when you'll send around the compiled slides
• COORDINATOR'S EMAIL - to whom the participants should send their slides
• COORDINATOR'S NAME - so you can sign off the email!

4. Send the email!

• Don't forget to attach the template slides

5. Collect the slides together from the presenters into one combined slide deck. Send these slides to the presenters for them to check.
6. Edit and send the day before email with the appropriate information for your event.
7. Use the host on the day guide to coordinate the presentations. Remember to keep everyone strictly to time.
8. Enjoy! 🚀 ✨

Contributors

The template slides were created by Kirstie Whitaker for an event run by Dervila Glynn for Cambridge Neuroscience. They are available under a CC-BY license.

The slides contain two examples and we're very grateful to František Váša and James Hockley for allowing us to use them.

František is finishing his PhD at the Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, funded by the Gates Cambridge Trust. He studies methods for the construction and analysis of human structural and functional brain networks, which he applies to help characterise healthy adolescent development and to identify differences between brain networks of healthy participants and patients with a range of psychiatric disorders.

For more information about the project presented in František’s DataBlitz slides, please see the now published manuscript (doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhx249), or for more information on his research, visit his Google Scholar profile.

James has been based at the Department of Pharmacology, University of Cambridge since 2016 and is focussed on understanding the molecular basis of visceral sensation, specifically how we sense pain from our gastrointestinal tract in health and disease.

For more information about the project that underpins these DataBlitz slides please see the now published manuscript (doi: 10.1136/gutjnl-2017-315631) or for more general information about his research visit https://www.phar.cam.ac.uk/research/Smith/researchinterests.

License

All materials here are available for remixing and reuse under a CC-BY license. That means you can use them for any purpose so long as you credit the Kirstie Whitaker and Dervila Glynn as creators of the material. If you use the template slides please also credit František Váša and James Hockley for the use of their slides.