With so many types of research in medicine, creating a poster that would only focus on "clinical" aspects would be a disservice. It all starts from the basics - I called it "fundamental research".

What I've realised in making this poster is the unspecified distinction between study types and study designs. But the two concepts are completely different from each other.

Studies in the pharmaceutical world deserve a separate section on this poster, since they have a specified process described across different stages of drug development.

Fundamental research - a theory that needs to be tested, observed, measured, and represented - extends in its theoretical and practical form to all other domains of research.

For weeks, I had no clue that one of the most frequently used schematics in medical statistics are called directed acyclic graphs (DAGs). They are quite useful to understand causal relationships between variables.

Drug trials, embeded in a tigthly regulated process, have specific phases during which specific tests are conducted and goals to be met. Therefore, a compact start-to-finish description was needed.

Identifying the right font size, line thickness, and the proportion of different lines of text required multiple iterations - but none of it is visible until seen in physical form.

In all of my posters, I try to simultaneously use colour and text to tell a story using two different approaches - each carrying a slightly different piece of information.

Finding relevant examples for each study type required a new set of "factors", which took some time to avoid overlap. There's always room to laugh, though, with the mistakes one can make in the process.

So many factors can influence our research and sometimes most of them can be completely unrelated to the scientific question we're posing. This is why visualization with DAGs can be valuable.

I was happy I got to include the broader scientific community on this poster. We all have our place in this enormous ecosystem of biomedical research, but all suffer from the struggles.

From labs and computers to patients, we all follow a similar path in finding out what that truth really is. I often get reminded of that when looking at the final version of this poster.