How do we identify relevant articles in our domains? This project uses example journal RSS feeds with abstracts, uses LLMs to extract points of interest, and shares insights on Bluesky—stimulating curiosity. Motivations There are countless excellent articles published daily, but how do we identify which ones are relevant to ...

In online A/B testing, we often face a significant practical challenge: the randomization unit differs from the analysis unit. Typically, control and treatment groups are randomly assigned at the user level, while metrics—such as click-through r...

I recently conducted a small time series workshop session for AI+ training hosted by ODSC. It went really well, and I’d be happy to offer longer interactive workshops going forward (please reach out if your team would like one!). One of the examples I shared was derived from the ...

The MAJOR story of F1’s 2025 season is of course the match-up between Sainz and Albon (sorry, did something happen at Ferrari?). Albon’s current level is quite a mystery, because since going up against Verstappen as a rookie he has only ever had...

Here’s another puzzle, from Henry Dudeney’s Perplexities column in Strand Magazine, January 1924. Arrange the ten digits, 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0, in such order that they shall form a number that may be divided by every number from 2 to 18 without ...

This is the second blog in a series about the {sparkline} R package for inline data visualisations. You can read the first one here. In this post I will be demonstrating how you can include sparklines inside HTML tables. Reactable {reactable} is ...

Have you ever wondered why your ggplot title is not perfectly aligned, detracting from the impact of your data visualization? As experts in data visualization and r programming, we understand the power of a well-...

I am excited to announce that the pharmaverse council has approved additional organizational characteristics required for council membership. These criteria establish the level of DEI (Diversity, Equity & Inclusion) commitment we expect fr...

Your data scientist just spent three days crafting the perfect sales performance report. The sales team loves it. Next month, they’ll need it again. And the month after that. Sound familiar? Here’s a better way: A data scientist and a sales manager sit down for three hours. They ...

A student recently asked whether bootstrap confidence intervals were more robust than confidence intervals estimated using the standard error (i.e. ). In order to answer this question I wrote a function to simulate taking a bunch of random s...

This post is based on the textbook Evidence Synthesis for Decision Making in Healthcare (ESDMH) by Nicky J. Welton, Alexander J. Sutton, Nicola J. Cooper, Keith R. Abrams, and A.E. Ades. This textbook is an exemplary presentation of healthcare d...

Call for Abstracts Deadline Extended Good news! We’re extending the deadline for abstract submissions for Shiny in Production 2025 by two weeks. You now have until 11:59 PM BST on 3rd April 2025 to submit your proposal. This extension gives you e...