What does it mean for a data analysis to fail? I’ve come to feel that this is an important question because considering the ways that data analyses can fail is a good way to prevent an analysis from ...

Russell Shinohara is awarded 2023 Mortimer Spiegelman Award Russell “Taki” Shinohara was selected as 2023 Moritmer Spiegelman Award recipient. Dr. Shinohara was selected from an incredibly deep and ...

I read this really interesting paper over the break, where they had multiple analyst teams analyze the same data set and fit a model to answer the same question. This is a topic we’ve thought about a ...

The role of academia in data science educationNov. 24, 2020 ...

Universities Do Spend Indirect Costs on Research, And It’s Still Not Enough Many, including prominent scientists, seem to misunderstand the true cost of biomedical research and the fact that ...

Code is a useful representation of a data analysis for the purposes of transparency and opennness. But code alone is often insufficient for evaluating the quality of a data analysis and for ...

UMAP is a powerful tool for exploratory data analysis, but without a clear understanding of how it works, it can easily lead to confusion and misinterpretation.

Narrative Failure in Data Analysis A data analysis can fail if it doesn’t present a coherent story and “close all the doors”. Such a failure is not simply a problem with communication, but often ...

Many, including prominent scientists, seem to misunderstand the true cost of biomedical research and the fact that universities subsidize it beyond what they receive from the NIH.

Statisticians have been pointing out the problem with dynamite plots, also known as bar and line graphs, for years. Karl Broman lists them as one of the top ten worst graphs. The problem has even been ...

Is Code the Best Way to Represent a Data Analysis? Code is a useful representation of a data analysis for the purposes of transparency and opennness. But code alone is often insufficient for ...

Biologists, stop putting UMAP plots in your papers UMAP is a powerful tool for exploratory data analysis, but without a clear understanding of how it works, it can easily lead to confusion and ...