Track your organization's funding impact through ProjectLIVE

Funding organizations impact the research environment through their support of various innovative studies. The data generated in these studies can be an important way to track the progress of the studies under a funding initiative. ProjectLive is designed to help our external and internal partners track the progress of each study present on the NF Data Portal through simple visualizations of yearly or monthly tracking of upload and annotation of data files generated in the study.

Overview of the tracking dashboard:

ProjectLive can help you track progress of your organization’s funding at various levels of granularity and aspects using the following top level modules:

1. SNAPSHOT: This module provides a bird's eye view of the organization's funding structure and activity in the funded studies year over year through various summary level visualizations (or plots).

2. PUBLICATIONS: This module is focused on longitudinal tracking of the publications associated with the studies funded through an organization.

3. PARTICIPATING STUDIES: This module provides focused information about individual studies with a high level of granularity ranging from tracking the annotation status of uploaded files to tracking of upload activity as it relates to the study's expected milestones.

4. NEW SUBMISSIONS: This module provides a list of all newly uploaded files within the last n number of days (you can pick the window of time).

ProjectLive is designed to give you summary level information related to all the studies in an organization’s funding portfolio. To access and download the files and data contained within each of these studies in various initiatives, please navigate back to the NF Data Portal. Instructions on navigating the NF Data Portal and finding data of interest is available throughout the rest of our documentation site.

How to access the tracking dashboard:

To access the ProjectLIVE app, follow these steps:

1. Go to the NF Data Portal and make sure you’re signed in

2. Click on the Organizations tab in the top menu, and select your organization from the dropdown list

3. Click Funding Impact in the table of contents on the left (see screenshot below) or simply scroll to the bottom of the page

   

4. Under Funding Impact, click View Dashboard—this will direct you to the app

Navigating the app

The ProjectLIVE app features four modules: Snapshot, Publications, Participating Studies, and New Submissions. Please see the top of the application (just below the url ) to find these top level modules. Clicking on each of the module names will take you to the individual module.

Snapshot module

This module is designed to provide you with an overview of the organization’s current and past initiatives. It’s a clear, “snapshot” glance of all the studies your organization has funded. You can see the total number of studies, files, samples, and publications, by year, and by study. This module does not provide details on individual files themselves. You can access the actual files through the data portal.

This module features 3 different bar plots.

Here’s a summary of each bar plot in the Snapshot module:

Initiative Activity plot

This plot provides a breakdown of initiatives by year, organized into categories of Access Type (Private, Public, Access Requested, and Not Annotated). You can hover over any of the plot blocks to see the actual number of files (see screenshot below).

Resources Generated plot

This plot provides an overview of the number of files per data type, by year. For some data types, there is more than one study listed. Hover over any of the plot blocks to see more details.

File Upload Timeline plot

This plot provides an overview of the number of files uploaded per data/resource type, for each study, by year. Hover over any of the plot blocks to see more details.

Publications module

This module is designed to provide you with an overview, in terms of numbers, of the organization’s current and past publications. This module does not provide details on individual publications or files themselves. You can access these through the data portal.

This module features 2 bar plots.

Here’s a summary of each bar plot in the Publications module:

Publication Status plot

This plot displays the number of publications per year, per study. If you hover over any of the plot blocks, you can see how many publications there were for that study in that year.

Publication Status by Disease Manifestation plot

This plot displays the number of publications per year, by disease manifestation rather than by study. You can hover over any of the plot blocks to see a more detailed count.

Participating Studies module

This page provides an overview of participating studies, which you can filter by initiative, followed by several relevant bar plots to reflect your selected initiative.

New Submissions module

This page provides a table of new file submissions, which you can filter by number of days.

How to use the bar plots

The many plot graphs that you can find throughout the app all function in essentially the same way.

If you hover your cursor over different bars on the plot, you can view more information about that bar. For plots that include a legend, you can click on any item in the legend to temporarily add or remove it from the table. You can also double click on any item to isolate only that item in the plot.

There are additional table tools you can access by hovering your mouse over any part of the table—these tools (seen below) will appear as icons at the top right of any plot.

• Use the camera icon to download a .png image of the plot

• Use the zoom in and zoom out icons to zoom in and out

• Use the autoscale icon to rescale the plot back to fit the page after zooming in or out

Play around with the other icons to see if any are of use to you!

You can also click Download plot table at the top left corner of any plot to download a .csv file of the plot table data (data only).

How to find a specific piece of information

For additional instructions on specific use cases, see the page Use Cases.