Building a user-driven database of open neuroscience projects

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# Building a user-driven database of open neuroscience projects
### Matias Andina
### OHBM
### June 21st, 2021

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#  👋

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**Matias Andina**

Argentinean 🇦🇷,

Biologist 👨‍🎓,
Neuroscientist 🐭 🧠
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</svg> [**@NeuroMLA**](https://twitter.com/neuroMLA)
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**[Open Neuroscience](http://open-neuroscience.com/)**

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## What is Open Neuroscience?

A user-driven database of open neuroscience projects

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## An idea is born

🧑‍🔬 `\(\rightarrow\)` 🤔 `\(\rightarrow\)` 💡

❗ ... 🔧 ...

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## An idea is born

🧑‍🔬 `\(\rightarrow\)` 🤔 `\(\rightarrow\)` 💡

❗ ... 🔧 ...

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## An idea is born

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🧑‍🔬 `\(\rightarrow\)` 🤔 `\(\rightarrow\)` 💡

❗ ... 🔧 ...

💭 "If only there was a database of open projects"

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## Why does it matter?

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Scientists want to do science.

Science needs tools.
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## Why does it matter?

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Scientists want to do science.

Science needs tools.

Tools are often a **major** problem*.
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.footnote[*: expensive, incompatible, unmodifiable, unavailable, unreliable, irreproducible, old.]

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## There's (almost) always an Open Solution

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## There's (almost) always an Open Solution

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## What about Hardware?

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<img src="img/hardware.png" width="60%" />
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## What is Open Neuroscience?

A **.blue[user-driven]** database of open neuroscience projects

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![](img/logo_mix.svg)

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## What is Open Neuroscience?

Collaborative system:
* Text based pipeline (`.csv` `\(\rightarrow\)` `.md` `\(\rightarrow\)` `.html`)

* Everything runs out in the open <svg viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" style="height:1em;position:relative;display:inline-block;top:.1em;" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg">
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* Anyone can create issues and/or pull requests

* Everyone is welcome to add their projects*

* We use a twitter bot to drive engagement <svg viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" style="height:1em;position:relative;display:inline-block;top:.1em;" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg">
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.footnote[We just check for spam]

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## Our metrics

We use **[.blue[plausible]](https://plausible.io/open-neuroscience.com?period=6mo)**. Our metrics are public, we aggregate and show them on **[our site](https://open-neuroscience.com/metrics/)**.

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Last 12 months in **[open-neuroscience.com](https://open-neuroscience.com/)**

* ~200 open source projects

* ~10K visitors
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## Our metrics

We use **[.blue[plausible]](https://plausible.io/open-neuroscience.com?period=6mo)**. Our matrics are public, we aggregate and show them on **[our site](https://open-neuroscience.com/metrics/)**.

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Last 12 months in **[open-neuroscience.com](https://open-neuroscience.com/)**

* ~200 open source projects

* ~10K visitors

* A global experience
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<img src="img/openneuro-map.png" width="896" />
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## Seminar Series

Open Neuroscience meets [world-wide.org](https://www.world-wide.org/Neuro/Open-Source-Neuro/)

📆 Tool showcase each Friday

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## Our metrics

### [<svg viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" style="height:1em;position:relative;display:inline-block;top:.1em;fill:#2e68fb;" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg">  <path d="M23 3a10.9 10.9 0 0 1-3.14 1.53 4.48 4.48 0 0 0-7.86 3v1A10.66 10.66 0 0 1 3 4s-4 9 5 13a11.64 11.64 0 0 1-7 2c9 5 20 0 20-11.5a4.5 4.5 0 0 0-.08-.83A7.72 7.72 0 0 0 23 3z"></path></svg>](https://www.twitter.com/openneurosci)

~ 2K+ followers

~ 150K+ tweet views

### [<svg viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" style="height:1em;position:relative;display:inline-block;top:.1em;fill:#F50C3D;" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg">  <path d="M22.54 6.42a2.78 2.78 0 0 0-1.94-2C18.88 4 12 4 12 4s-6.88 0-8.6.46a2.78 2.78 0 0 0-1.94 2A29 29 0 0 0 1 11.75a29 29 0 0 0 .46 5.33A2.78 2.78 0 0 0 3.4 19c1.72.46 8.6.46 8.6.46s6.88 0 8.6-.46a2.78 2.78 0 0 0 1.94-2 29 29 0 0 0 .46-5.25 29 29 0 0 0-.46-5.33z"></path>  <polygon points="9.75 15.02 15.5 11.75 9.75 8.48 9.75 15.02"></polygon></svg>](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHPvi_HaEU7OQgXQBh9ECvQ)

~ 100 subscribers

~ 2K+ video reproductions on our seminar series

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## What's next?

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## Growth

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🎯 Increase access to open tools in neuroscience.
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Tool adoption depends on fragile chains

Creator's spheres of influence are often independent and disconnected.

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## Growth

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🎯 Increase access to open tools in neuroscience.
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Facilitate tool adoption by creating a hub

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## What can you do?
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## Add a project

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Use this link to add your project

https://bit.ly/2LkTd2a
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## Help solving issues

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Use this link to find and solve issues on our site

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## Be Social

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Know someone who's made a great open project?

Tell them about Open Neuroscience!

Help the movement grow organically by sharing our content

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## Be awesome

* Adopt open source practices in your research*

* Share and help implement open source practices within your team

* Sponsor open source projects (💵 and/or ⏳)

.footnote[Visit [OSHWA](https://www.oshwa.org/) to learn more!]

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## Our team

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## Thank You