diff --git a/_posts/2024-03-07-decade.md b/_posts/2024-03-07-decade.md index 0b0202b..5a6df98 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-03-07-decade.md +++ b/_posts/2024-03-07-decade.md @@ -11,13 +11,13 @@ by Alejandro de la Vega --- -#### 🚨 **We need your help!** 🚨 We want to learn about why people use NeuroVault, and how to improve it to incentivize data sharing and re-use. +#### 🚨 **We need your help!** We want to learn why people use NeuroVault, and how to improve it to incentivize data sharing and re-use. #### Take a few minutes to [tell us NeuroVault's future should look like](https://tally.so/forms/wLP2Oj)! 🗳️ --- -*TLDR; NeuroVault continues to grow every year, but is still not used by a majority of the community. Take our survey to help us improve!* +*TLDR; NeuroVault continues to grow every year, but is still not used by a majority of the neuroimaging community. Take our survey to help!* It's hard to believe, but it's been over 10 years since NeuroVault was first launched. 🎉 @@ -25,13 +25,13 @@ In 2013, at the [Neurosynth Hackathon](https://web.archive.org/web/2013120222471 The mission was simple: to provide a place where researchers can publicly store and share unthresholded statistical maps, parcellations, and atlases produced by MRI and PET studies. -*The reason?* Neuroimaging studies are expensive, but they're often underpowered, and statistical results are summarized into figures and thresholded peak coordinates, discarding valuable information. Although the field of neuroimaging has significantly advanced since 2013--with notably larger *and* deeper samples becoming more common-- the core mission of NeuroVault to enable public sharing of neuroimaging results remains as relevant as ever. +*The reason?* Neuroimaging studies are expensive, but they're often underpowered, and statistical results are summarized into figures and thresholded peak coordinates, *discarding valuable information*. Although neuroimaging has advanced significantly since 2013--with notably larger *and* deeper samples becoming more common-- the core mission to enable public sharing of neuroimaging results remains relevant as ever. As an attendee of that hackathon in Boulder (in fact, it was my very first one!), I'm happy to say that nearly 11 years later, **NeuroVault is very much alive and well**. NeuroVault is visited by *nearly 30,000 users a year*, and boasts a *staggering 269,934 images* contributed by 3,216 unique users! I want to take some time to dive into this wealth of data, to understand the state of NeuroVault a decade later, and ask **in what ways NeuroVault has succeeded**, and **how we can improve the platform** to help ensure the next decade of neuroimaging data sharing is even more successful. -Let's dive into some numbers! 📊 +Let's dive in! 📊 ### What has been uploaded to NeuroVault?