Track your organization's funding impact through ProjectLIVE

We created this app so that you could have a straightforward look into all of the outputs that have been generated for your organization via the NF Data Portal. All of the data hosted within this app is pulled directly from the portal—it simply provides an overview of that data, presented as visualizations in the form of bar plots.

Please note that the app is designed to show you a “snapshot” of your organization’s initiatives—a way to see an overview of the studies, programs, and publications that your organization has funded, all in one place. For a more granular look at the actual files and data contained within these initiatives, please navigate back to the NF Data Portal. You can find robust instructions on navigating the NF Data Portal and finding data of interest throughout the rest of our documentation site.

Accessing the app

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.

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.