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Simply Statistics

Feb. 17, 2025
Rafael Irizarry

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 universities subsidize it beyond what they receive from the NIH.
Dec. 23, 2024
Rafael Irizarry

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 misinterpretation.
Sept. 13, 2023
Jeff Leek

Russell Shinohara is awarded the 2023 Mortimer Spiegelman Award
Jan. 3, 2023
Jeff Leek

The analyst is a random variable
Dec. 27, 2022
Jeff Leek

What is artificial intelligence? A three part definition
July 29, 2022
Roger Peng

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 evaluating the quality of a data analysis and for determining why certain outputs differ from what was expected. Is there a better way to represent a data analysis that helps to resolve some of these questions?
Jan. 13, 2022
Roger Peng

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 indicates a problem with the details of the analysis itself.
Nov. 10, 2021
Roger Peng

Thinking About Failure in Data Analysis
March 31, 2021
Jeff Leek

Streamline - tidy data as a service
Nov. 24, 2020
Roger Peng

The Four Jobs of the Data Scientist
Aug. 26, 2020
Roger Peng

Palantir Shows Its Cards
April 30, 2020
Roger Peng

Asymptotics of Reproducibility
April 29, 2020
Jeff Leek

Amplifying people I trust on COVID-19
Dec. 4, 2019
Roger Peng

Is Artificial Intelligence Revolutionizing Environmental Health?
Aug. 28, 2019
Rafael Irizarry

You can replicate almost any plot with R
Aug. 27, 2019
Roger Peng

So You Want to Start a Podcast
July 23, 2019
Jeff Leek

The data deluge means no reasonable expectation of privacy - now what?
July 19, 2019
Amy Gill

More datasets for teaching data science: The expanded dslabs package
May 29, 2019
Jeff Leek

Research quality data and research quality databases
May 20, 2019
Jeff Leek

I co-founded a company! Meet Problem Forward Data Science
April 29, 2019
Roger Peng

Generative and Analytical Models for Data Analysis
April 17, 2019
Roger Peng

Tukey, Design Thinking, and Better Questions
April 1, 2019
Jeff Leek

Interview with Abhi Datta
March 13, 2019

10 things R can do that might surprise you
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