class: center, middle, inverse, title-slide # Communication through posters ### Yue Jiang ### Duke University / STA 583 / Spring 2024 --- ### Finishing up from last time... --- ### Before we talk about posters - infographics! <img src="img/poster0.png" width="50%" style="display: block; margin: auto;" /> (Source: FEMA) --- ### Before we talk about posters - infographics! <img src="img/posterleo.png" width="70%" style="display: block; margin: auto;" /> (Source: TrustLittleBrother) --- ### What is the purpose of a research poster? <img src="img/badposter.jpg" width="80%" style="display: block; margin: auto;" /> .question[ How do research posters differ from infographics? In what ways are they similar? ] --- ### What are people looking for? - **Brief** text, with tables, graphs, and pictures - Interaction / presentation possible - Think about the relative advantages of the poster format - **Readable** and **interesting** - draw the reader in! - Summarize the main important points of your manuscript (no one wants a poster of technical derivations, unless that's the point of your research) --- ### What is effective? What less so? <img src="img/example1.png" width="100%" style="display: block; margin: auto;" /> (Authors and affiliations redacted) --- ### One opinion <img src="img/video.png" width="100%" style="display: block; margin: auto;" /> [The "better poster" concept (brief video!)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RwJbhkCA58) --- ### Mike Morrison <img src="img/betterposter1.png" width="100%" style="display: block; margin: auto;" /> --- ### Derek Crowe <img src="img/goodposter1.png" width="100%" style="display: block; margin: auto;" /> --- ### Some tips from other people... - [Colin Purrington](https://colinpurrington.com/tips/poster-design/) - [Derek Crowe](https://derekcrowe.net/butterposter) - [Mike Morrison](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RwJbhkCA58) - YouTube video linked previously --- ### What is effective? What less so? <img src="img/example2.png" width="90%" style="display: block; margin: auto;" /> (Authors and affiliations redacted) --- ### What is effective? What less so? <img src="img/example3.png" width="80%" style="display: block; margin: auto;" /> (Authors and affiliations redacted) --- ### What is effective? What less so? <img src="img/example4.png" width="80%" style="display: block; margin: auto;" /> (Authors and affiliations redacted) --- ### What is effective? What less so? <img src="img/example5.png" width="80%" style="display: block; margin: auto;" /> (Authors and affiliations redacted) --- ### What is effective? What less so? <img src="img/example6.png" width="80%" style="display: block; margin: auto;" /> (Authors and affiliations redacted) --- ### What is effective? What less so? <img src="img/badposter.png" width="100%" style="display: block; margin: auto;" /> --- ### What is effective? What less so? <img src="img/poster1.png" width="90%" style="display: block; margin: auto;" /> --- ### What is effective? What less so? <img src="img/poster2.png" width="90%" style="display: block; margin: auto;" />