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Sunday data/statistics link roundup (6/16/13 – Father’s day edition!)

June 16, 2013
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Datapalooza! I'm wondering where my invite is? I do health data stuff, pick me, pick me! Actually it does sound like a pretty good idea - in general giving a bunch of smart people access to interesting data and real … Continue reading →

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The vast majority of statistical analysis is not performed by statisticians

June 14, 2013
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Whether you know it or not, everything you do produces data - from the websites you read to the rate at which your heart beats. Until pretty recently, most of the data you produced wasn’t collected, it floated off unmeasured. … Continue reading →

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False discovery rate regression (cc NSA’s PRISM)

June 13, 2013
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False discovery rate regression (cc NSA’s PRISM)

There is an idea I have been thinking about for a while now. It re-emerged at the top of my list after seeing this really awesome post on using metadata to identify "conspirators" in the American revolution. My first thought was: … Continue reading →

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Personalized medicine is primarily a population-health intervention

June 12, 2013
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There has been a lot of discussion of personalized medicine, individualized health, and precision medicine in the news and in the medical research community. Despite this recent attention, it is clear that healthcare has always been personalized to some extent. For … Continue reading →

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Why not have a "future of the field" session at a conference with only young speakers?

June 11, 2013
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I'm in the process of trying to get together a couple of sessions to submit to ENAR 2014. I'm pretty psyched about the topics and am looking forward to hosting the conference in Baltimore. It is pretty awesome to have … Continue reading →

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Sunday data/statistics link roundup (6/2/13)

June 3, 2013
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Awesome, a GUI for d3 graphs. Via John M. Tom L. on why statistics matter, especially at the Census! I've been spending the last several weeks house hunting like crazy, so the idea of data on schools is high on … Continue reading →

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What statistics should do about big data: problem forward not solution backward

May 29, 2013
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There has been a lot of discussion among statisticians about big data and what statistics should do to get involved. Recently Steve M. and Larry W. took up the same issue on their blog. I have been thinking about this … Continue reading →

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Sunday data/statistics link roundup (5/19/2013)

May 19, 2013
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This is a ridiculously good post on 20th versus 21st century problems and the rise of the importance of empirical science. I particularly like the discussion of what it means to be a "solved" problem and how that has changed. … Continue reading →

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Sunday data/statistics link roundup (5/12/2013, Mother’s Day!)

May 13, 2013
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A tutorial on deep-learning, I really enjoyed reading it, but I'm still trying to figure out how this is different than non-linear logistic regression to estimate features then supervised prediction using those features? Or maybe I'm just naive.... Rafa on … Continue reading →

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A Shiny web app to find out how much medical procedures cost in your state.

May 8, 2013
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A Shiny web app to find out how much medical procedures cost in your state.

Today the front page of the Huffington Post featured the new data available from the CMS that shows the cost of many popular procedures broken down by hospital. We here at Simply Statistics think you should be able to explore … Continue reading →

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