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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

“If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck but it needs batteries, you probably have the wrong abstraction” Derick Bailey This book is about artificial intelligence. The term “artificial ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

We are three biostatistics professors (Jeff Leek, Roger Peng, and Rafa Irizarry) who are fired up about the new era where data are abundant and statisticians are scientists. The views represented here ...

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 ...