The ResBaz poster session with a difference

By Damien Irving

A typical academic conference involves a procession of verbal and poster presentations showcasing the latest research findings. Such conferences are obviously vitally important for the advancement of knowledge in a given research discipline, however what rarely gets discussed is the tools and data processing workflows used to produce that latest research.

This omission is partly due to the fact that researchers simply don’t have the time and/or space to include such detail in a conference presentation/poster, but it’s also true that many (or most) researchers are a little ashamed to talk about such things. Modern day meteorologists, biologists and kinesiologists, for instance, spend a lot of time writing code to analyse data. The vast majority don’t have a computer programming background, which means they’re a little self-conscious when it comes to discussing the details of their personal workflow.   

To address this problem, the Research Bazaar conference isn’t so concerned with what your research is about, but rather how you actually do that research. In order to get the conversation stated, all attendees are required to produce a poster that describes the tools in their digital research toolbox. It turns out that many (even fairly unrelated) research disciplines require similar tools, so we think attendees will learn a lot from one another! 

To make this exercise as painless as possible, we’ve prepared a Google Slides document that contains a poster template and a few examples. All participants are asked to add their poster to the Google Slides document by no later than Friday 6 February, so that we can print them up and put them on display during the tea breaks at the Bazaar. There’s a separate Google Slides document for each stream at ResBaz, so simply click on the link corresponding to the stream you’re enrolled in to get started!

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