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The one study you shouldn’t write
I might have my own set of ideological prejudices,1Largely, they presume outlandish stuff like ‘human life is exceptional and always worth defending’ or ‘death does not cure illnesses’, you get my...
View ArticleThe Fear Factor
Update: Adam has a great response, much from his own (rather different yet nonetheless fascinating and infinitely important) perspective, that should be a valuable read to anyone who found this post...
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How I predicted Trump’s victory
Introit “Can you, just once, explain it in intelligible words?”, my wife asked. We’ve been talking for about an hour about American politics, and I made a valiant effort at trying to explain to her how...
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Are you looking for a data science sensei?
Maybe you’re a junior data scientist, maybe you’re a software developer who wants to go into data science, or perhaps you’ve dabbled in data for years in Excel but are ready to take the next step. If...
View ArticleEbola! Graph databases! Contact tracing! Bad puns!
Thanks to the awesome folks at Neo4j Budapest and GraphAware, I will be talking tonight about Ebola, contact tracing, how graph databases help us understand epidemics and maybe prevent them someday....
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SafeGram: visualising drug safety
Update: an RMarkdown notebook explaining the whole process is available here. Visualising vaccine safety is hard. Doing so from passive (or, as we say it in Britain, ‘spontaneous’!) pharmacovigilance...
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Is Senomyx putting baby parts into your fruit juice? The answer may (not)...
I know a great number of people who oppose abortion, and who are therefore opposed to the biomedical use of tissue or cells that have been derived from foetuses aborted for that very purpose, although...
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Assignment in R: slings and arrows
Having recently shared my post about defensive programming in R on the r/rstats subreddit, I was blown away by the sheer number of comments as much as I was blown away by the insight many displayed....
View ArticleStructuring R projects
There are some things that I call Smith goods:1 things I want, nay, require, but hate doing. A clean room is one of these – I have a visceral need to have some semblance of tidiness around me, I just...
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