1. Welcome
It’s our BIRTHDAY!
@cochrane_crowd #MedLitBlitz @Mark2Cure

2. We would love you to hear any questions you might have
Housekeeping
We would love you to hear any questions you might have
Ginger and I are going to present and then there will a Questions & Answers session
To ask a question, either:
Raise your hand
Type a question into the questions box
Catch us on Twitter after this webinar!
@cochrane_crowd #MedLitBlitz @Mark2Cure

3. We would love you to hear any questions you might have
Housekeeping
We would love you to hear any questions you might have
Ginger and I are going to present and then there will a Questions & Answers session
To ask a question, either:
Raise your hand
Type a question into the questions box
Catch us on Twitter after this webinar!
Let’s begin!
@cochrane_crowd #MedLitBlitz @Mark2Cure

4. Transforming Biomedical Discovery with Citizen Science
Ginger Tsueng
Mark2Cure/Su Lab
The Scripps Research Institute

5. Test ideas &
generate info
Read papers
for info & ideas
Publish papers

6. Test ideas &
generate info
Read papers
for info & ideas
Publish papers

7. Test ideas &
generate knowledge
Read papers
for info & ideas
Publish papers

8. Test ideas &
generate knowledge
Read papers
for info & ideas
Publish papers

9. Publish papers Test ideas & generate knowledge Read papers
for info & ideas
Publish papers

11. Extraction
Synthesis
Integration
Clue A
Clue B
Clue C
New
Hypothesis

12. Extraction
Synthesis
Integration
Clue A
Clue B
Clue C
New
Hypothesis

13. Extraction
Synthesis
Integration
Clue A
Clue B
Clue C
New
Hypothesis

14. Why citizen science? Why not a requirement for manuscript submission?

18. How?

19. Information Extraction
Named Entity Recognition
(NER/ER)
Relationship Extraction
(RE)

20. Extraction
Words
Classifications
Relationships

21. http://theoryandpractice. citizenscienceassociation. org/articles/10

22. Extraction
Words
Classifications
Relationships

25. Why should you help?

28. Reading is Learning

29. Everything in biomedical
science is connected

30. We will all get sick

31. If you can read,
you can help

32. Cochrane Crowd crowd.cochrane.org

33. People are our greatest asset
crowd.cochrane.org

34. Cochrane Crowd Hello. Can I come in?
People want to contribute to health research.
We need to provide ways to enable people to contribute meaningfully

35. Information overload Global scientific output doubling every 9 years
200 billion s sent per day
crowd.cochrane.org

36. Cochrane Crowd launched May 2016
crowd.cochrane.org

37. Is it a randomised controlled trial?
Small discrete tasks
Is it a randomised controlled trial?
crowd.cochrane.org

38. Supported by brief (fun!) training
20 practice records guiding you through the main things we’re looking for

39. Top 5 features Work on records of interest to you
crowd.cochrane.org

40. Top 5 features Work offline Grab 100 records for your journey
Don’t worry if you end up watching movies instead!
Records then get released back to the community
crowd.cochrane.org

41. Top 5 features Add your own highlights
crowd.cochrane.org

42. Top 5 features
Help me decide
crowd.cochrane.org

43. Top 5 features My History
I can see where my decision did not agree with the final decision
Oops! I did indeed get this one wrong

44. Progress to new tasks
We are building progression pathways where contributors can progress to new tasks
RCT
DTA
PICO

45. Contributors are from around 120 countries
So far
Contributors are from around 120 countries
crowd.cochrane.org

46. So far Over 1 million individual classifications!
Over 5500 people have signed up to contribute
Around 40,000 randomised trials have been found by Cochrane Crowd
crowd.cochrane.org

47. More tasks P I C O P E C O Available Planned or in beta Identifying
Describing
YES P I C O
Is it an RCT?
YES P E C O
Is it a DTA?

48. P = population I = Intervention C = Comparator O = Outcomes
Coming soon: PICO
P = population I = Intervention C = Comparator O = Outcomes

49. Quality RCT RCT RCT RCT CENTRAL Reject Reject Reject Reject ‘BIN’
RESOLVER
Unsure
RESOLVER

50. Recruitment and Engagement
Most aged between
26-35 years
59% work in a health related area
21% are students
(health and non-health)
16% are ‘consumers’
(patients, carers, public)
Data as of 26 Oct 2016
Survey of sign-up since launch of new platform

51. Cochrane Crowd
“Feels like something useful you can do if you have just a few minutes and can't get into something bigger workwise. It’s great being part of the team”
“I like that I can make a small contribution to Cochrane from my own home, on my own schedule”
“I hope to be able to contribute as much as I can in college and in my life after graduation, but I’d like to do something now. When I saw that I can work directly with Cochrane I was really excited”
“It's fun, and is actually useful.”

52. Join Cochrane Crowd today!
crowd.cochrane.org

53. #MedLitBlitz It’s our BIRTHDAY!
@cochrane_crowd #MedLitBlitz @Mark2Cure

54. 2 x 24 hour challenges
@cochrane_crowd #MedLitBlitz @Mark2Cure

55. Challenge 1: Cochrane Crowd
9-10th May
24 hours to find as many randomised trials as possible
@cochrane_crowd #MedLitBlitz @Mark2Cure

56. 24 hours to annotate as many records as possible
Challenge 2: Mark2Cure
11-12th May
24 hours to annotate as many records as possible
@cochrane_crowd #MedLitBlitz @Mark2Cure

57. Cochrane Crowd: crowd.cochrane.org (9th-10th)
Mark2Cure: mark2cure.org (11th-12th)
We.Can.Do.This
@cochrane_crowd #MedLitBlitz @Mark2Cure