The famed physicist Richard Feynman once said, “I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something,” a lesson from his father. I think too often we in the statistics/machine learning field are guilty of “only knowing the name of something.” Well, in most ...

The importance of reliable and accurate software in the pharmaceutical industry cannot be overstated. As you grapple with the complexities of developing Shiny applications that not only meet requirements but also remain free of defects, the co...

Gathering Your Gear: Preparing for the Quest with RMarkdownStanding at the threshold of the Enchanted Forest of Data, you’re about to embark on a journey where insight and clarity emerge from the shadows of complexity. Your guide through this mystical realm is RMarkdown, a powerful tool that weaves the ...

Race amalgamation in Georgia – W.E.B Du Bois Recreating the the data visualization of W.E.B Du Bois from the 1900 Paris Exposition using modern tools. See the challenge presentation. Setup library(tidyverse) library(glue) library(ggte...

Race amalgamation in Georgia – W.E.B Du Bois Recreating the the data visualization of W.E.B Du Bois from the 1900 Paris Exposition using modern tools. See the challenge presentation. Setup library(tidyverse) library(glue) library(ggtex...

Welcome to the future of pharmaceuticals, where the fusion of science and technology opens new horizons in healthcare. Imagine a world where the journey from the laboratory to the patient’s bedside is faster, more efficient, and more precise. This is not a glimpse into a distant future; it’s ...

I’ve very recently started contributing to the nixpkgs repository of packages, which contains all the packages you can install from the Nix package manager. My contributions are fairly modest: I help fix R packages that need some tweaking to make them successfully build for Nix. Most of these fixes ...

The web inspector of your web browser lets you take a look at the source code of any website that you want. And getting comfortable with it is a great way to learn how to write HTML and CSS. More importantly, whenever you write your own HTML &am...

Introduction I’d like to demonstrate what “analysis of variance” (often abbreviated as “anova” or “aov”) does for you as a data scientist or analyst. After reading this note you should be able to determine how an analysis of variance style calculation can or can not help with your project. (...

Data management in the pharmaceutical industry presents unique challenges, often compounded by the sheer volume and complexity of clinical trial data. Traditional methods, particularly spreadsheet-based approaches, have long been the norm, yet they pose significant drawbacks. Interested in advancing clinical research with dynamic reports? Uncover how Shiny and Quarto can ...

The violence in the regions is essential to indicate the peace and security reached by the countries. Fortunately, the global homicide rate has been decreasing while it is slowly. But as for men, the situation does not look so bright. The global homicide rate per 100.000 people is about four times ...

The R Consortium recently reconnected with Paul Stewart, founder of Moffitt Cancer Center Bio-Data Club in Tampa, Florida. Since the last update on January 6th, 2023, the Moffitt Cancer Center... The post Moffitt Cancer Center Bio-Data Club’s New Chapter in Spatial Data Analysis and Enhanced Hackathon Collaboration appeared first on ...