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Michael Fay gave a short course on interval censored data at the 2010 useR! meeting. The slides from this short course provide a nice overview of the complexities of this type of data. Continue reading
Category Archives: Recommended
Recommended: Adjusted survival curves
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This is a nice overview of how to use R to adjust survival curves in an observational study. It covers weighting and modeling with covariates and criticizes several approaches. Continue reading
Recommended: Reproducible research with Stata
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This outlines a way to produce “beautiful Beamer presentations” using Stata. This is a step towards the goal of reproducible research. Continue reading
Recommended: beepr: easily play notification sounds on any platform
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This package was mentioned at the most recent meeting of the Kansas City R Users Group and was too cute not to mention. Continue reading
Recommended: A crummy drop-down menu appeared to kill dozens of mothers in Texas.
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This article talks about how bad the maternal mortality rates are in the United States and how bad our effort to try to quantify the rate is. Continue reading
Recommended: Dogs vs cats. Create an algorithm to distinguish dogs from cats
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This is a classic data set for testing out image analysis. You have a data set of 25,000 images which are labelled dogs or cats. This is easy for a human to do, but can you develop an algorithm that can tell the difference? Continue reading
Recommended: SMS Spam Collection Data Set
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If you are interested in text mining, this is a good data set to start with. It is a bunch of text messages, each one line long, that have been classified by a human as either spam or ham (ham is a legitimate message). Continue reading
Recommended: Exploits of a Mom
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This xkcd cartoon by Scott Munro is open source, so I can hotlink the image directly. But if you go to the source, https://xkcd.com/327/, be sure to hover over the image for a second punch line.
Recommended: Data Sharing Network (SHRINE)
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I’m ginvg a talk about i2b2 (among other things) and when browsing through their website, I cam across an interesting project, SHRINE. This is an acronym for Shared health Research Informatics NEtwork., and represents a way of allowing users to review information across multiple i2b2 sites. It requires the individual institutions who have i2b2 systems to cooperate with one another, which is not always easy. But this has tremendous potential. Continue reading
Recommended: ISO 8601
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This xkcd cartoon by Scott Munro is open source, so I can hotlink the image directly. But if you go to the source, https://xkcd.com/1179/, be sure to hover over the image for a second punch line.