initiative.qmd

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title: "About the initative"
description: "These pages originate from an initiative at Novartis which aims at fostering the impact of quantitative scientists on decision-making based on data. While this motivation is set in pharmaceutical development, we hope this effort is of benefit to all quantitative scientists."
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## Overview paper

[Here](https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/pst.1912) is a paper which summarizes several facets of the initiative (as of 2018), specifically:

*	A graph gallery, i.e. a resource to browse good graphs and download corresponding software code (at this point only available within Novartis)
*	The [graphics principles cheat sheet](cheatsheet.html)
*	The graphics newsletter, a bi‐monthly journal to promote graphical awareness and skills throughout Novartis (these have given rise to the [Blog](https://graphicsprinciples.github.io/gallery/))
*	The creation and standardization of Analysis Results Datasets for drug development to allow reuse of analysis results for further display (work in progress)
*	Standardization efforts for the most common and important graphs in drug development (Novartis only)
*	The concept of [Question‐Based Visualizations (QBV)](qbv.html) and interactive graphics
*	Stakeholder management and communication

## Who?

The initiative lives by the contributions of Mark Baillie, David Carr, Allison Florance, Julie Jones, Linda Kanitra, Jürgen Löffler, Baldur Magnusson, Alison Margolskee, Oliver Sander, Marc Vandemeulebroecke, Ivan-Toma Vranesic, Andrew Wright, and many others.