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Simply StatisticsSimply Statistics Simply Statistics Home Featured About ☰ 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 Feb. 21, 2019 Rafael Irizarry Open letter to journal editors: dynamite plots must die Feb. 18, 2019 Interview with Stephanie Hicks Jan. 18, 2019 Roger Peng The Tentpoles of Data Science Jan. 9, 2019 Roger Peng How Data Scientists Think - A Mini Case Study Dec. 19, 2018 Roger Peng The Netflix Data War Dec. 11, 2018 Roger Peng The Role of Theory in Data Analysis Nov. 1, 2018 Rafael Irizarry The role of academia in data science education Oct. 11, 2018 Rafael Irizarry Guest Post: Galin Jones on criteria for promotion and tenture in (bio)statistics departments Oct. 8, 2018 Jeff Leek The economic consequences of MOOCs Oct. 1, 2018 Jeff Leek Chromebook Data Science - a free online data science program for anyone with a web browser. Sept. 28, 2018 Rafael Irizarry The complex process of obtaining Puerto Rico mortality data: a timeline Sept. 14, 2018 Roger Peng Divergent and Convergent Phases of Data Analysis Sept. 7, 2018 Roger Peng Being at the Center Aug. 24, 2018 Roger Peng Constructing a Data Analysis Aug. 15, 2018 Roger Peng The Law and Order of Data Science Aug. 9, 2018 Roger Peng The Trillion Dollar Question July 27, 2018 Roger Peng Why I Indent My Code 8 Spaces July 23, 2018 Roger Peng Partitioning the Variation in Data July 12, 2018 Roger Peng Teaching R to New Users - From tapply to the Tidyverse July 6, 2018 Roger Peng What Should be Done When Data Have Creators? June 30, 2018 Roger Peng Cultural Differences in Map Data Visualization June 26, 2018 Roger Peng Creativity in Data Analysis June 18, 2018 Roger Peng The Role of Resources in Data Analysis June 15, 2018 Roger Peng People vs. Institutions in Data Analysis June 10, 2018 Rafael Irizarry An ode to King James June 8, 2018 Rafael Irizarry Estimating mortality rates in Puerto Rico after hurricane María using newly released official death counts June 4, 2018 Roger Peng Trustworthy Data Analysis May 24, 2018 Roger Peng Context Compatibility in Data Analysis May 17, 2018 Jeff Leek Awesome postdoc opportunities in computational genomics at JHU May 15, 2018 Roger Peng Rethinking Academic Data Sharing May 3, 2018 Roger Peng Software as an academic publication April 30, 2018 Roger Peng Relationships in Data Analysis April 23, 2018 Roger Peng What can we learn from data analysis failures? April 19, 2018 Jeff Leek Process versus outcome productivity April 17, 2018 Roger Peng What is a Successful Data Analysis? April 2, 2018 Rafael Irizarry Input on the Draft NIH Strategic Plan for Data Science Feb. 8, 2018 Jeff Leek What do Fahrenheit, comma separated files, and markdown have in common? Jan. 22, 2018 Rafael Irizarry Some datasets for teaching data science Dec. 20, 2017 Jeff Leek A non-comprehensive list of awesome things other people did in 2017 Dec. 20, 2017 Roger Peng Thoughts on David Donoho’s "Fifty Years of Data Science" Dec. 19, 2017 Roger Peng How Do Machines Learn? Dec. 19, 2017 Roger Peng Puerto Rico's governor wants recount of hurricane death toll Dec. 18, 2017 Roger Peng Data Analysis and Engagement - Does Caring About the Analysis Matter? Dec. 15, 2017 Jeff Leek This is a brave post and everyone in statistics should read it Dec. 3, 2017 Rafael Irizarry Hurricane María official death count in conflict with mortality data Nov. 27, 2017 Some roadblocks to the broad adoption of machine learning and AI Nov. 21, 2017 Jeff Leek A few things that would reduce stress around reproducibility/replicability in science Nov. 20, 2017 Roger Peng Follow Up on Reasoning About Data Nov. 16, 2017 Roger Peng Reasoning About Data Oct. 30, 2017 Roger Peng How do you convince other people to use R? Oct. 9, 2017 Roger Peng It Costs Money to Get It Right Oct. 2, 2017 Jeff Leek Creating an expository graph for a talk Sept. 19, 2017 Roger Peng Recording Podcasts with a Remote Co-Host Sept. 18, 2017 Roger Peng Editing Podcasts with Logic Pro X Sept. 11, 2017 Roger Peng Specialization and Communication in Data Science Sept. 7, 2017 Roger Peng Moon Shots Cost More Than You Think Sept. 4, 2017 Roger Peng Deep Dive - Y. Ogata's Residual Analysis for Point Processes Aug. 29, 2017 Jeff Leek Data Science on a Chromebook Aug. 28, 2017 Roger Peng Simple Queue Package for R Aug. 8, 2017 Rafael Irizarry Code for my educational gifs July 26, 2017 Jeff Leek Announcing the tidypvals package July 19, 2017 Jeff My unfunded HHMI teaching professors proposal July 14, 2017 Roger Peng My Podcast Podroll July 14, 2017 Roger Peng Optimizing for User Experience July 13, 2017 Rafael Irizarry The joy of no more violin plots July 10, 2017 Roger Peng The Machines Learn But We Don't June 20, 2017 Rafael Irizarry Lowering the GWAS threshold would save millions of dollars June 13, 2017 Jeff Leek The future of education is plain text June 6, 2017 Jeff Leek papr - rate papers on biorxiv in a single swipe and help science! May 24, 2017 Jeff Leek Toward tidy analysis May 17, 2017 Roger Peng The Past and Future of Data Analysis May 9, 2017 Rafael Irizarry Data on the Comey Effect May 7, 2017 Roger Peng Will Machine Learning and AI Ever Solve the Last Mile? May 4, 2017 Rafael Irizarry Some default and debt restructuring data April 24, 2017 Rafael Irizarry Science really is non-partisan: facts and skepticism annoy everybody April 6, 2017 Rafael Irizarry La matrícula, el costo del crédito y las huelgas en la UPR April 3, 2017 Rafael Irizarry The Importance of Interactive Data Analysis for Data-Driven Discovery March 16, 2017 Jeff Leek The levels of data science class March 8, 2017 Roger Peng When do we need interpretability? March 7, 2017 Roger Peng Model building with time series data March 2, 2017 Jeff Leek Reproducibility and replicability is a glossy science now so watch out for the hype Feb. 20, 2017 Roger Peng My Podcasting Setup Feb. 15, 2017 Roger Peng Data Scientists Clashing at Hedge Funds Feb. 13, 2017 Roger Peng Not So Standard Deviations Episode 32 - You Have to Reinvent the Wheel a Few Times Feb. 1, 2017 Roger Peng Reproducible Research Needs Some Limiting Principles Jan. 26, 2017 Jeff Leek New class - Data App Prototyping for Public Health and Beyond Jan. 23, 2017 Roger Peng User Experience and Value in Products Jan. 18, 2017 Jeff Leek Got a data app idea? Apply to get it prototyped by the JHU DSL! Jan. 17, 2017 Roger Peng Interview with Al Sommer - Effort Report Episode 23 Jan. 9, 2017 Roger Peng Not So Standard Deviations Episode 30 - Philately and Numismatology Dec. 29, 2016 Jeff Leek Some things I've found help reduce my stress around science Dec. 20, 2016 Jeff Leek A non-comprehensive list of awesome things other people did in 2016 Dec. 16, 2016 Jeff Leek The four eras of data Dec. 15, 2016 Roger Peng Not So Standard Deviations Episode 28 - Writing is a lot Harder than Just Talking Dec. 9, 2016 Rafael Irizarry What is going on with math education in the US? Nov. 30, 2016 Roger Peng Not So Standard Deviations Episode 27 - Special Guest Amelia McNamara Nov. 17, 2016 Jeff Leek Help choose the Leek group color palette Nov. 11, 2016 Rafael Irizarry Open letter to my lab: I am not "moving to Canada" Nov. 9, 2016 Rafael Irizarry Not all forecasters got it wrong: Nate Silver does it again (again) Nov. 8, 2016 Jeff Leek Data scientist on a chromebook take two Oct. 28, 2016 Roger Peng Not So Standard Deviations Episode 25 - How Exactly Do You Pronounce SQL? Oct. 26, 2016 Roger Peng Are Datasets the New Server Rooms? Oct. 20, 2016 Jeff Leek Distributed Masochism as a Pedagogical Model Oct. 16, 2016 Roger Peng Not So Standard Deviations Episode 24 - 50 Minutes of Blathering Oct. 14, 2016 Jeff Leek Should I make a chatbot or a better FAQ? Oct. 12, 2016 Roger Peng The Dangers of Weighting Up a Sample Oct. 3, 2016 Jeff Leek papr - it's like tinder, but for academic preprints Oct. 3, 2016 Roger Peng Information and VC Investing Oct. 1, 2016 Roger Peng Not So Standard Deviations Episode 23 - Special Guest Walt Hickey Sept. 29, 2016 Jeff Leek Statistical vitriol Sept. 28, 2016 Roger Peng The Mystery of Palantir Continues Sept. 27, 2016 Rafael Irizarry Thinking like a statistician: this is not the election for progressives to vote third party Sept. 26, 2016 Roger Peng Facebook and left censoring Sept. 19, 2016 Roger Peng Mastering Software Development in R Sept. 19, 2016 Roger Peng Not So Standard Deviations Episode 22 - Number 1 Side Project Sept. 7, 2016 Rafael Irizarry Interview With a Data Sucker Sept. 6, 2016 Rafael Irizarry A Short Guide for Students Interested in a Statistics PhD Program Aug. 26, 2016 Jeff Leek How to create a free distributed data collection "app" with R and Google Sheets Aug. 26, 2016 Roger Peng Not So Standard Deviations Episode 21 - This Might be the Future! Aug. 25, 2016 Jeff Leek Interview with COPSS award winner Nicolai Meinshausen. Aug. 24, 2016 Roger Peng A Simple Explanation for the Replication Crisis in Science July 30, 2016 Jeff Leek A meta list of what to do at JSM 2016 July 20, 2016 Jeff Leek The relativity of raw data July 18, 2016 Roger Peng Not So Standard Deviations Episode 18 - Divide by n-1, or n-2, or Whatever July 11, 2016 Roger Peng Tuesday update July 5, 2016 Roger Peng Not So Standard Deviations Episode 18 - Back on Planet Earth June 28, 2016 Roger Peng A Year at Stack Overflow June 28, 2016 Roger Peng Tuesday Update June 14, 2016 Roger Peng Ultimate AI battle - Apple vs. Google June 13, 2016 Roger Peng Good list of good books June 9, 2016 Roger Peng Not So Standard Deviations Episode 17 - Diurnal High Variance June 3, 2016 Roger Peng Defining success - Four secrets of a successful data science experiment May 31, 2016 Roger Peng Sometimes the biggest challenge is applying what we already know May 24, 2016 Roger Peng Sometimes there's friction for a reason May 23, 2016 Roger Peng Not So Standard Deviations Episode 16 - The Silicon Valley Episode May 23, 2016 Roger Peng Update on Theranos May 18, 2016 Roger Peng What is software engineering for data science? May 13, 2016 Roger Peng Disseminating reproducible research is fundamentally a language and communication problem May 11, 2016 Roger Peng The Real Lesson for Data Science That is Demonstrated by Palantir's Struggles May 10, 2016 Jeff Leek A means not an end - building a social media presence as a junior scientist May 5, 2016 Roger Peng Time Series Analysis in Biomedical Science - What You Really Need to Know May 4, 2016 Roger Peng Not So Standard Deviations Episode 15 - Spinning Up Logistics April 28, 2016 Jeff Leek High school student builds interactive R class for the intimidated with the JHU DSL April 27, 2016 Roger Peng An update on Georgia Tech's MOOC-based CS degree April 21, 2016 Jeff Leek Write papers like a modern scientist (use Overleaf or Google Docs + Paperpile) April 20, 2016 Jeff Leek As a data analyst the best data repositories are the ones with the least features April 11, 2016 Jeff Leek Junior scientists - you don't have to publish in open access journals to be an open scientist. April 8, 2016 Roger Peng A Natural Curiosity of How Things Work, Even If You're Not Responsible For Them April 7, 2016 Roger Peng Not So Standard Deviations Episode 13 - It's Good that Someone is Thinking About Us April 5, 2016 Roger Peng Companies are Countries, Academia is Europe March 31, 2016 Roger Peng New Feather Format for Data Frames March 30, 2016 Jeff Leek How to create an AI startup - convince some humans to be your training set March 26, 2016 Roger Peng Not So Standard Deviations Episode 12 - The New Bayesian vs. Frequentist March 24, 2016 Jeff Leek The future of biostatistics March 21, 2016 Andrew Jaffe The Evolution of a Data Scientist March 14, 2016 Roger Peng Not So Standard Deviations Episode 11 - Start and Stop March 2, 2016 Roger Peng Not So Standard Deviations Episode 10 - It's All Counterexamples Feb. 26, 2016 Jeff Leek Preprints are great, but post publication peer review isn't ready for prime time Feb. 23, 2016 Roger Peng Spreadsheets: The Original Analytics Dashboard Feb. 17, 2016 Jeff Leek Non-tidy data Feb. 16, 2016 Jeff Leek When it comes to science - its the economy stupid. Feb. 12, 2016 Roger Peng Not So Standard Deviations Episode 9 - Spreadsheet Drama Feb. 11, 2016 Jeff Leek Why I don't use ggplot2 Feb. 10, 2016 Jeff Leek Data handcuffs Feb. 9, 2016 Jeff Leek Leek group guide to reading scientific papers Feb. 1, 2016 Jeff Leek A menagerie of messed up data analyses and how to avoid them Jan. 26, 2016 Roger Peng Exactly how risky is breathing? Jan. 25, 2016 Jeff Leek On research parasites and internet mobs - let's try to solve the real problem. Jan. 24, 2016 Roger Peng Not So Standard Deviations Episode 8 - Snow Day Jan. 21, 2016 Roger Peng Parallel BLAS in R Jan. 14, 2016 Roger Peng Profile of Hilary Parker Jan. 12, 2016 Roger Peng Not So Standard Deviations Episode 7 - Statistical Royalty Jan. 11, 2016 Roger Peng Jeff, Roger and Brian Caffo are doing a Reddit AMA at 3pm EST Today Dec. 21, 2015 Jeff Leek A non-comprehensive list of awesome things other people did in 2015 Dec. 18, 2015 Roger Peng Not So Standard Deviations: Episode 6 - Google is the New Fisher Dec. 11, 2015 Jeff Leek Instead of research on reproducibility, just do reproducible research Dec. 9, 2015 Rafael Irizarry By opposing tracking well-meaning educators are hurting disadvantaged kids Dec. 3, 2015 Roger Peng Not So Standard Deviations: Episode 5 - IRL Roger is Totally With It Dec. 1, 2015 Rafael Irizarry Thinking like a statistician: the importance of investigator-initiated grants Nov. 25, 2015 Jeff Leek A thanksgiving dplyr Rubik's cube puzzle for you Nov. 24, 2015 Rafael Irizarry 20 years of Data Science: from Music to Genomics Nov. 19, 2015 Rafael Irizarry Some Links Related to Randomized Controlled Trials for Policymaking Nov. 17, 2015 Rafael Irizarry Given the history of medicine, why are randomized trials not used for social policy? Nov. 16, 2015 Jeff Leek So you are getting crushed on the internet? The new normal for academics. Nov. 10, 2015 Roger Peng Prediction Markets for Science: What Problem Do They Solve? Nov. 9, 2015 Rafael Irizarry Biostatistics: It's not what you think it is Nov. 7, 2015 Roger Peng Not So Standard Deviations: Episode 4 - A Gajillion Time Series Nov. 6, 2015 Jeff Leek How I decide when to trust an R package Oct. 30, 2015 Jeff Leek Faculty/postdoc job opportunities in genomics across Johns Hopkins Oct. 30, 2015 Roger Peng The Statistics Identity Crisis: Am I a Data Scientist Oct. 29, 2015 Jeff Leek The statistics identity crisis: am I really a data scientist? Oct. 28, 2015 Roger Peng Discussion of the Theranos Controversy with Elizabeth Matsui Oct. 24, 2015 Roger Peng Not So Standard Deviations: Episode 3 - Gilmore Girls Oct. 20, 2015 Rafael Irizarry We need a statistically rigorous and scientifically meaningful definition of replication Oct. 16, 2015 Roger Peng Theranos runs head first into the realities of diagnostic testing Oct. 14, 2015 Roger Peng Minimal R Package Check List Oct. 3, 2015 Roger Peng Profile of Data Scientist Shannon Cebron Oct. 2, 2015 Roger Peng Not So Standard Deviations: Episode 2 - We Got it Under 40 Minutes Oct. 1, 2015 Jeff Leek A glass half full interpretation of the replicability of psychological science Sept. 30, 2015 Roger Peng Apple Music's Moment of Truth Sept. 29, 2015 Rafael Irizarry We Used Data to Improve our HarvardX Courses: New Versions Start Oct 15 Sept. 23, 2015 Rafael Irizarry Data Analysis for the Life Sciences - a book completely written in R markdown Sept. 18, 2015 Jeff Leek The Leek group guide to writing your first paper Sept. 17, 2015 Roger Peng Not So Standard Deviations: The Podcast Aug. 25, 2015 Jeff Leek Interview with COPSS award Winner John Storey Aug. 24, 2015 Rafael Irizarry The Next National Library of Medicine Director Can Help Define the Future of Data Science Aug. 21, 2015 Jeff Leek Interview with Sherri Rose and Laura Hatfield Aug. 20, 2015 Jeff Leek If you ask different questions you get different answers - one more way science isn't broken it is just really hard Aug. 19, 2015 Jeff Leek P > 0.05? I can make any p-value statistically significant with adaptive FDR procedures Aug. 12, 2015 Rafael Irizarry Correlation is not a measure of reproducibility Aug. 12, 2015 Roger Peng UCLA Statistics 2015 Commencement Address Aug. 10, 2015 Rafael Irizarry rafalib package now on CRAN Aug. 9, 2015 Jeff Leek Interested in analyzing images of brains? Get started with open access data. Aug. 9, 2015 Roger Peng Statistical Theory is our "Write Once, Run Anywhere" July 30, 2015 Jeff Leek Autonomous killing machines won't look like the Terminator...and that is why they are so scary July 28, 2015 Roger Peng Announcing the JHU Data Science Hackathon 2015 July 24, 2015 Roger Peng stringsAsFactors: An unauthorized biography July 17, 2015 Jeff Leek The statistics department Moneyball opportunity July 10, 2015 Roger Peng The Mozilla Fellowship for Science July 8, 2015 Roger Peng JHU, UMD researchers are getting a really big Big Data center July 3, 2015 Roger Peng The Massive Future of Statistics Education July 2, 2015 Roger Peng Looks like this R thing might be for real July 1, 2015 Roger Peng How Airbnb built a data science team June 24, 2015 Rafael Irizarry How public relations and the media are distorting science June 16, 2015 Roger Peng Interview at Leanpub June 10, 2015 Jeff Leek Johns Hopkins Data Science Specialization Captsone 2 Top Performers June 9, 2015 Rafael Irizarry Batch effects are everywhere! Deflategate edition June 8, 2015 Jeff Leek I'm a data scientist - mind if I do surgery on your heart? June 4, 2015 Roger Peng Interview with Class Central June 1, 2015 Jeff Leek Interview with Chris Wiggins, chief data scientist at the New York Times May 28, 2015 Jeff Leek Science is a calling and a career, here is a career planning guide for students and postdocs May 20, 2015 Rafael Irizarry Is it species or is it batch? They are confounded, so we can't know May 18, 2015 Jeff Leek Residual expertise - or why scientists are amateurs at most of science May 8, 2015 Jeff Leek The tyranny of the idea in science May 7, 2015 Jeff Leek Mendelian randomization inspires a randomized trial design for multiple drugs simultaneously May 1, 2015 Jeff Leek Rafa's citations above replacement in statistics journals is crazy high. April 30, 2015 Roger Peng Figuring Out Learning Objectives the Hard Way April 29, 2015 Jeff Leek Data analysis subcultures April 13, 2015 Rafael Irizarry Genomics Case Studies Online Courses Start in Two Weeks (4/27) April 13, 2015 Roger Peng Why is there so much university administration? We kind of asked for it. April 9, 2015 Jeff Leek A blessing of dimensionality often observed in high-dimensional data sets April 9, 2015 Roger Peng How to Get Ahead in Academia April 2, 2015 Roger Peng Why You Need to Study Statistics March 26, 2015 Jeff Leek Teaser trailer for the Genomic Data Science Specialization on Coursera March 24, 2015 Rafael Irizarry Introduction to Bioconductor HarvardX MOOC starts this Monday March 30 March 19, 2015 Jeff Leek A surprisingly tricky issue when using genomic signatures for personalized medicine March 18, 2015 Jeff Leek A simple (and fair) way all statistics journals could drive up their impact factor. March 17, 2015 Jeff Leek Data science done well looks easy - and that is a big problem for data scientists March 14, 2015 Rafael Irizarry pi day special: How to use Bioconductor to find empirical evidence in support of pi being a normal number March 13, 2015 Jeff Leek De-weaponizing reproducibility March 3, 2015 Jeff Leek The elements of data analytic style - so much for a soft launch March 2, 2015 Rafael Irizarry Advanced Statistics for the Life Sciences MOOC Launches Today Feb. 18, 2015 Jeff Leek Navigating Big Data Careers with a Statistics PhD Feb. 13, 2015 Rafael Irizarry Introduction to Linear Models and Matrix Algebra MOOC starts this Monday Feb 16 Feb. 12, 2015 Roger Peng Is Reproducibility as Effective as Disclosure? Let's Hope Not. Feb. 9, 2015 Jeff Leek The trouble with evaluating anything Feb. 5, 2015 Jeff Leek Early data on knowledge units - atoms of statistical education Feb. 5, 2015 Ira Gooding Johns Hopkins Data Science Specialization Top Performers Feb. 4, 2015 Jeff Leek Knowledge units - the atoms of statistical education Jan. 30, 2015 Jeff Leek Precision medicine may never be very precise - but it may be good for public health Jan. 26, 2015 Roger Peng Reproducible Research Course Companion Jan. 21, 2015 Rafael Irizarry Data as an antidote to aggressive overconfidence Jan. 20, 2015 Rafael Irizarry Gorging ourselves on "free" health care: Harvard's dilemma Jan. 16, 2015 Jeff Leek If you were going to write a paper about the false discovery rate you should have done it in 2002 Jan. 15, 2015 Jeff Leek How to find the science paper behind a headline when the link is missing Jan. 12, 2015 Rafael Irizarry Statistics and R for the Life Sciences: New HarvardX course starts January 19 Jan. 7, 2015 Jeff Leek Beast mode parenting as shown by my Fitbit data Jan. 4, 2015 Jeff Leek Sunday data/statistics link roundup (1/4/15) Dec. 31, 2014 Jeff Leek Ugh ... so close to one million page views for 2014 Dec. 22, 2014 Rafael Irizarry On how meetings and conference calls are disruptive to a data scientist Dec. 21, 2014 Jeff Leek Sunday data/statistics link roundup (12/21/14) Dec. 19, 2014 Jeff Leek Interview with Emily Oster Dec. 18, 2014 Jeff Leek Repost: Statistical illiteracy may lead to parents panicking about Autism Dec. 17, 2014 Jeff Leek A non-comprehensive list of awesome things other people did in 2014 Dec. 14, 2014 Jeff Leek Sunday data/statistics link roundup (12/14/14) Dec. 12, 2014 Rafael Irizarry Kobe, data says stop blaming your teammates Dec. 8, 2014 Rafael Irizarry Genéticamente, no hay tal cosa como la raza puertorriqueña Dec. 7, 2014 Jeff Leek Sunday data/statistics link roundup (12/7/14) Dec. 5, 2014 Jeff Leek Interview with Cole Trapnell of UW Genome Sciences Dec. 4, 2014 Jeff Leek Repost: A deterministic statistical machine Dec. 2, 2014 Rafael Irizarry Thinking Like a Statistician: Social Media and the ‘Spiral of Silence’ Nov. 25, 2014 Rafael Irizarry HarvardX Biomedical Data Science Open Online Training Curriculum launches on January 19 Nov. 12, 2014 Rafael Irizarry Data Science Students Predict the Midterm Election Results Nov. 10, 2014 Jeff Leek Sunday data/statistics link roundup (11/9/14) Nov. 5, 2014 Jeff Leek Time varying causality in n=1 experiments with applications to newborn care Nov. 4, 2014 Rafael Irizarry 538 election forecasts made simple Nov. 2, 2014 Jeff Leek Sunday data/statistics link roundup (11/2/14) Oct. 28, 2014 Rafael Irizarry Why I support statisticians and their resistance to hype Oct. 26, 2014 Jeff Leek Return of the sunday links! (10/26/14) Oct. 24, 2014 Jeff Leek An interactive visualization to teach about the curse of dimensionality Oct. 22, 2014 Jeff Leek Vote on simply statistics new logo design Oct. 20, 2014 Rafael Irizarry Thinking like a statistician: don't judge a society by its internet comments Oct. 17, 2014 Rafael Irizarry Bayes Rule in an animated gif Oct. 16, 2014 Jeff Leek Creating the field of evidence based data analysis - do people know what a p-value looks like? Oct. 15, 2014 Roger Peng Dear Laboratory Scientists: Welcome to My World Oct. 13, 2014 Rafael Irizarry I declare the Bayesian vs. Frequentist debate over for data scientists Oct. 9, 2014 Jeff Leek Data science can't be point and click Oct. 8, 2014 Jeff Leek The Leek group guide to genomics papers Oct. 6, 2014 Jeff Leek An economic model for peer review Oct. 2, 2014 Jeff Leek The Drake index for academics Sept. 30, 2014 Jeff Leek You think P-values are bad? I say show me the data. Sept. 22, 2014 Roger Peng Unbundling the educational package Sept. 15, 2014 Rafael Irizarry Applied Statisticians: people want to learn what we do. Let's teach them. Sept. 9, 2014 Jeff Leek A non-comprehensive list of awesome female data people on Twitter Sept. 4, 2014 Jeff Leek Why the three biggest positive contributions to reproducible research are the iPython Notebook, knitr, and Galaxy Aug. 20, 2014 Jeff Leek A (very) brief review of published human subjects research conducted with social media companies Aug. 19, 2014 Jeff Leek SwiftKey and Johns Hopkins partner for Data Science Specialization Capstone Aug. 18, 2014 Jeff Leek Interview with COPSS Award winner Martin Wainwright Aug. 15, 2014 Jeff Leek Crowdsourcing resources for the Johns Hopkins Data Science Specialization Aug. 13, 2014 Jeff Leek swirl and the little data scientist's predicament Aug. 12, 2014 Jeff Leek The Leek group guide to giving talks Aug. 11, 2014 Jeff Leek Stop saying "Scientists discover..." instead say, "Prof. Doe's team discovers..." Aug. 7, 2014 Jeff Leek It's like Tinder, but for peer review. Aug. 6, 2014 Jeff Leek If you like A/B testing here are some other Biostatistics ideas you may like Aug. 5, 2014 Jeff Leek Do we need institutional review boards for human subjects research conducted by big web companies? July 29, 2014 Roger Peng Introducing people to R: 14 years and counting July 25, 2014 Rafael Irizarry Academic statisticians: there is no shame in developing statistical solutions that solve just one problem July 16, 2014 Roger Peng Jan de Leeuw owns the Internet June 30, 2014 Jeff Leek Piketty in R markdown - we need some help from the crowd June 25, 2014 Jeff Leek Privacy as a function of sample size June 24, 2014 Roger Peng New book on implementing reproducible research June 23, 2014 Jeff Leek The difference between data hype and data hope June 18, 2014 Jeff Leek Heads up if you are going to submit to the Journal of the National Cancer Institute June 16, 2014 Jeff Leek The future of academic publishing is here, it just isn't evenly distributed June 13, 2014 Jeff Leek What I do when I get a new data set as told through tweets June 6, 2014 Roger Peng The Real Reason Reproducible Research is Important June 3, 2014 Roger Peng Post-Piketty Lessons May 28, 2014 Rafael Irizarry The Big in Big Data relates to importance not size May 22, 2014 Jeff Leek 10 things statistics taught us about big data analysis May 7, 2014 Jeff Leek Why big data is in trouble: they forgot about applied statistics May 5, 2014 Roger Peng JHU Data Science: More is More April 30, 2014 Rafael Irizarry Confession: I sometimes enjoy reading the fake journal/conference spam April 22, 2014 Jeff Leek Picking a (bio)statistics thesis topic for real world impact and transferable skills April 17, 2014 Rafael Irizarry Correlation does not imply causation (parental involvement edition) April 10, 2014 Jeff Leek The #rOpenSci hackathon #ropenhack April 7, 2014 Rafael Irizarry Writing good software can have more impact than publishing in high impact journals for genomic statisticians April 1, 2014 Roger Peng This is how an important scientific debate is being used to stop EPA regulation March 31, 2014 Rafael Irizarry Data Analysis for Genomics edX Course March 26, 2014 Jeff Leek A non-comprehensive comparison of prominent data science programs on cost and frequency. March 24, 2014 Rafael Irizarry The fact that data analysts base their conclusions on data does not mean they ignore experts March 20, 2014 Jeff Leek The 80/20 rule of statistical methods development March 19, 2014 Jeff Leek The time traveler's challenge. March 14, 2014 Roger Peng ENAR is in Baltimore - Here's What To Do March 14, 2014 Rafael Irizarry How to use Bioconductor to find empirical evidence in support of pi being a normal number March 12, 2014 Jeff Leek Oh no, the Leekasso.... March 7, 2014 Rafael Irizarry Per capita GDP versus years since women received right to vote March 5, 2014 Jeff Leek PLoS One, I have an idea for what to do with all your profits: buy hard drives Feb. 26, 2014 Roger Peng Data Science is Hard, But So is Talking Feb. 21, 2014 Roger Peng Here's why the scientific publishing system can never be "fixed" Feb. 19, 2014 Roger Peng Why do we love R so much? Feb. 18, 2014 Rafael Irizarry k-means clustering in a GIF Feb. 17, 2014 Jeff Leek Repost: Ronald Fisher is one of the few scientists with a legit claim to most influential scientist ever Feb. 14, 2014 Jeff Leek On the scalability of statistical procedures: why the p-value bashers just don't get it. Feb. 13, 2014 Rafael Irizarry loess explained in a GIF Feb. 10, 2014 Jeff Leek Monday data/statistics link roundup (2/10/14) Feb. 5, 2014 Jeff Leek Just a thought on peer reviewing - I can't help myself. Feb. 4, 2014 Roger Peng My Online Course Development Workflow Feb. 3, 2014 Rafael Irizarry The three tables for genomics collaborations Jan. 29, 2014 Rafael Irizarry Not teaching computing and statistics in our public schools will make upward mobility even harder Jan. 28, 2014 Jeff Leek Marie Curie says stop hating on quilt plots already. Jan. 28, 2014 Roger Peng Announcing the Release of swirl 2.0 Jan. 21, 2014 Jeff Leek The Johns Hopkins Data Science Specialization on Coursera Jan. 19, 2014 Jeff Leek Sunday data/statistics link roundup (1/19/2014) Jan. 17, 2014 Rafael Irizarry Missing not at random data makes some Facebook users feel sad Jan. 16, 2014 Jeff Leek edge.org asks famous scientists what scientific concept to throw out & they say statistics Jan. 13, 2014 Jeff Leek Sunday data/statistics link roundup (1/12/2014) Jan. 8, 2014 Jeff Leek The top 10 predictor takes on the debiased Lasso - still the champ! Jan. 7, 2014 Rafael Irizarry Preparing for tenure track job interviews Jan. 5, 2014 Jeff Leek Sunday data/statistics link roundup (1/5/14) Jan. 4, 2014 Jeff Leek Repost: Prediction: the Lasso vs. just using the top 10 predictors Jan. 3, 2014 Roger Peng The Supreme Court takes on Pollution Source Apportionment...and Realizes It's Hard Dec. 30, 2013 Jeff Leek Some things R can do you might not be aware of Dec. 20, 2013 Jeff Leek A non-comprehensive list of awesome things other people did this year. Dec. 16, 2013 Jeff Leek A summary of the evidence that most published research is false Dec. 15, 2013 Jeff Leek Sunday data/statistics link roundup (12/15/13) Dec. 13, 2013 Roger Peng Simply Statistics Interview with Michael Eisen, Co-Founder of the Public Library of Science (Part 2/2) Dec. 12, 2013 Roger Peng Simply Statistics Interview with Michael Eisen, Co-Founder of the Public Library of Science (Part 1/2) Dec. 12, 2013 Jeff Leek The key word in "Data Science" is not Data, it is Science Dec. 11, 2013 Jeff Leek Are MOOC's fundamentally flawed? Or is it a problem with statistical literacy? Dec. 5, 2013 Rafael Irizarry NYC crime rates by year/commissioner Dec. 4, 2013 Rafael Irizarry Advice for students on the academic job market Dec. 3, 2013 Roger Peng On the future of the textbook Dec. 2, 2013 Rafael Irizarry Academics should not feel guilty for maximizing their potential by leaving their homeland Dec. 1, 2013 Jeff Leek Sunday data/statistics link roundup (12/2/13) Nov. 26, 2013 Jeff Leek Statistical zealots Nov. 22, 2013 Roger Peng Simply Statistics interview with Daphne Koller, Co-Founder of Coursera Nov. 21, 2013 Jeff Leek Future of Statistics take home messages. #futureofstats Nov. 21, 2013 Roger Peng You must be at least 20 years old for this job Nov. 18, 2013 Rafael Irizarry Feeling optimistic after the Future of the Statistical Sciences Workshop Nov. 16, 2013 Roger Peng What should statistics do about massive open online courses? Nov. 15, 2013 Roger Peng What's the future of inference? Nov. 14, 2013 Jeff Leek The Leek group guide to sharing data with a data analyst to speed collaboration Nov. 13, 2013 Roger Peng Original source code for Apple II DOS Nov. 12, 2013 Roger Peng Future of Statistical Sciences Workshop is happening right now #FSSW2013 Nov. 12, 2013 Roger Peng Survival analysis for hard drives Nov. 11, 2013 Roger Peng Apple's Touch ID and a worldwide lesson in sensitivity and specificity Nov. 11, 2013 Roger Peng Out with Big Data, in with Hyperdata Nov. 5, 2013 Roger Peng How to Host a Conference on Google Hangouts on Air Nov. 3, 2013 Jeff Leek Sunday data/statistics link roundup (11/3/13) Oct. 30, 2013 Roger Peng Unconference on the Future of Statistics (Live Stream) #futureofstats Oct. 29, 2013 Jeff Leek How to participate in #futureofstats Unconference Oct. 29, 2013 Roger Peng Tukey Talks Turkey #futureofstats Oct. 28, 2013 Jeff Leek Simply Statistics Future of Statistics Speakers - Two Truths, One Lie #futureofstats Oct. 27, 2013 Jeff Leek Sunday data/statistics link roundup (10/27/13) Oct. 25, 2013 Roger Peng (Back to) The Future of Statistical Software #futureofstats Oct. 23, 2013 Jeff Leek The Leek group guide to reviewing scientific papers Oct. 22, 2013 Jeff Leek Blog posts that impact real science - software review and GTEX Oct. 22, 2013 Rafael Irizarry PubMed commons is launching Oct. 21, 2013 Rafael Irizarry Why are the best relievers not used when they are most needed? Oct. 18, 2013 Roger Peng Platforms and Integration in Statistical Research (Part 2/2) Oct. 17, 2013 Jeff Leek The @fivethirtyeight effect - watching @walthickey gain Twitter followers in real time Oct. 15, 2013 Roger Peng Platforms and Integration in Statistical Research (Part 1/2) Oct. 15, 2013 Rafael Irizarry Teaching least squares to a 5th grader by calibrating a programmable robot Oct. 14, 2013 Jeff Leek A general audience friendly explanation for why Lars Peter Hansen won the Nobel Prize Oct. 13, 2013 Jeff Leek Sunday data/statistics link roundup (10/13/13) Oct. 11, 2013 Rafael Irizarry Why do we still teach a semester of trigonometry? How about engineering instead? Oct. 10, 2013 Rafael Irizarry Cancelled NIH study sections: a subtle, yet disastrous, effect of the government shutdown Oct. 9, 2013 Roger Peng The Care and Feeding of Your Scientist Collaborator Oct. 8, 2013 Roger Peng The Care and Feeding of the Biostatistician Oct. 7, 2013 Jeff Leek The Leek group policy for developing sustainable R packages Oct. 6, 2013 Jeff Leek Sunday data/statistics link roundup (10/6/2013) Oct. 4, 2013 Jeff Leek Repost: Finding good collaborators Sept. 30, 2013 Rafael Irizarry Statistical Ode to Mariano Rivera Sept. 29, 2013 Jeff Leek Sunday data/statistics link roundup (9/29/13) Sept. 27, 2013 Roger Peng Announcing Statistics with Interactive R Learning Software Environment Sept. 26, 2013 Jeff Leek How could code review discourage code disclosure? Reviewers with motivation. Sept. 25, 2013 Jeff Leek Is most science false? The titans weigh in. Sept. 24, 2013 Jeff Leek How I view an academic talk: like a sports game Sept. 23, 2013 Jeff Leek The limiting reagent for big data is often small, well-curated data Sept. 17, 2013 Jeff Leek Announcing the Simply Statistics Unconference on the Future of Statistics #futureofstats Sept. 16, 2013 Jeff Leek Data Analysis in the top 9 courses in lifetime enrollment at Coursera! Sept. 13, 2013 Roger Peng So you're moving to Baltimore Sept. 12, 2013 Rafael Irizarry Help needed for establishing an ASA statistical genetics and genomics section Sept. 5, 2013 Roger Peng Implementing Evidence-based Data Analysis: Treading a New Path for Reproducible Research (Part 3) Sept. 4, 2013 Jeff Leek Repost: A proposal for a really fast statistics journal Sept. 1, 2013 Jeff Leek Sunday data/statistics link roundup (9/1/13) Aug. 30, 2013 Roger Peng AAAS S&T Fellows for Big Data and Analytics Aug. 29, 2013 Jeff Leek The return of the stat - Computing for Data Analysis & Data Analysis back on Coursera! Aug. 28, 2013 Roger Peng Evidence-based Data Analysis: Treading a New Path for Reproducible Research (Part 2) Aug. 27, 2013 Roger Peng Interview with Ani Eloyan and Betsy Ogburn Aug. 26, 2013 Jeff Leek Statistics meme: Sad p-value bear Aug. 24, 2013 Roger Peng Did Faulty Software Shut Down the NASDAQ? Aug. 23, 2013 Jeff Leek If you are near DC/Baltimore, come see Jeff talk about Coursera Aug. 23, 2013 Rafael Irizarry Stratifying PISA scores by poverty rates suggests imitating Finland is not necessarily the way to go for US schools Aug. 22, 2013 Jeff Leek Chris Lane, U.S. tourism boycotts, and large relative risks on small probabilities Aug. 21, 2013 Roger Peng Treading a New Path for Reproducible Research: Part 1 Aug. 20, 2013 Jeff Leek A couple of requests for the @Statistics2013 future of statistics workshop Aug. 13, 2013 Roger Peng WANTED: Neuro-quants Aug. 9, 2013 Jeff Leek Embarrassing typos reveal the dangers of the lonely data analyst Aug. 8, 2013 Jeff Leek Data scientist is just a sexed up word for statistician Aug. 7, 2013 Roger Peng Simply Statistics #JSM2013 Picks for Wednesday Aug. 6, 2013 Roger Peng Simply Statistics #JSM2013 Picks for Tuesday Aug. 5, 2013 Roger Peng Simply Statistics #JSM2013 Picks for Monday Aug. 4, 2013 Jeff Leek Sunday data/statistics link roundup (8/4/13) Aug. 2, 2013 Jeff Leek That causal inference came out of nowhere Aug. 1, 2013 Rafael Irizarry The ROC curves of science July 31, 2013 Jeff Leek The researcher degrees of freedom - recipe tradeoff in data analysis July 28, 2013 Jeff Leek Sunday data/statistics link roundup (7/28/13) July 26, 2013 Jeff Leek Statistics takes center stage in the Independent July 22, 2013 Jeff Leek What are the 5 most influential statistics papers of 2000-2010? July 21, 2013 Jeff Leek Sunday data/statistics link roundup (7/21/2013) July 19, 2013 Roger Peng Defending clinical trials July 19, 2013 Jeff Leek The "failure" of MOOCs and the ecological fallacy July 17, 2013 Jeff Leek Name 5 statisticians, now name 5 young statisticians July 15, 2013 Rafael Irizarry Yes, Clinical Trials Work July 14, 2013 Jeff Leek Sunday data/statistics link roundup (7/14/2013) July 10, 2013 Roger Peng What are the iconic data graphs of the past 10 years? July 9, 2013 Roger Peng Repost: Preventing Errors Through Reproducibility July 8, 2013 Roger Peng Use R! 2014 to be at UCLA July 4, 2013 Jeff Leek Fourth of July data/statistics link roundup (7/4/2013) July 3, 2013 Roger Peng Repost: The 5 Most Critical Statistical Concepts July 1, 2013 Jeff Leek Measuring the importance of data privacy: embarrassment and cost June 27, 2013 Roger Peng What is the Best Way to Analyze Data? June 26, 2013 Roger Peng Art from Data June 25, 2013 Roger Peng Doing Statistical Research June 24, 2013 Roger Peng Does fraud depend on my philosophy? June 23, 2013 Jeff Leek Sunday data/statistics link roundup (6/23/13) June 21, 2013 Jeff Leek Interview with Miriah Meyer - Microsoft Faculty Fellow and Visualization Expert June 20, 2013 Jeff Leek Google's brainteasers (that don't work) and Johns Hopkins Biostatistics Data Analysis June 16, 2013 Jeff Leek Sunday data/statistics link roundup (6/16/13 - Father's day edition!) June 14, 2013 Jeff Leek The vast majority of statistical analysis is not performed by statisticians June 13, 2013 Jeff Leek False discovery rate regression (cc NSA's PRISM) June 12, 2013 Jeff Leek Personalized medicine is primarily a population-health intervention June 11, 2013 Jeff Leek Why not have a "future of the field" session at a conference with only young speakers? June 2, 2013 Jeff Leek Sunday data/statistics link roundup (6/2/13) May 29, 2013 Jeff Leek What statistics should do about big data: problem forward not solution backward May 19, 2013 Jeff Leek Sunday data/statistics link roundup (5/19/2013) May 17, 2013 Roger Peng When does replication reveal fraud? May 15, 2013 Rafael Irizarry The bright future of applied statistics May 12, 2013 Jeff Leek Sunday data/statistics link roundup (5/12/2013, Mother's Day!) May 8, 2013 Jeff Leek A Shiny web app to find out how much medical procedures cost in your state. May 6, 2013 Roger Peng Talking about MOOCs on MPT Direct Connection May 6, 2013 Jeff Leek Why the current over-pessimism about science is the perfect confirmation bias vehicle and we should proceed rationally May 2, 2013 Roger Peng Reproducibility at Nature April 30, 2013 Roger Peng Reproducibility and reciprocity April 28, 2013 Jeff Leek Sunday data/statistics link roundup (4/28/2013) April 26, 2013 Rafael Irizarry Mindlessly normalizing genomics data is bad - but ignoring unwanted variability can be worse April 23, 2013 Roger Peng Interview at Yale Center for Environmental Law & Policy April 21, 2013 Roger Peng Nevins-Potti, Reinhart-Rogoff April 19, 2013 Roger Peng Podcast #7: Reinhart, Rogoff, Reproducibility April 16, 2013 Roger Peng I wish economists made better plots April 15, 2013 Jeff Leek Data science only poses a threat to (bio)statistics if we don't adapt April 14, 2013 Jeff Leek Sunday data/statistics link roundup (4/14/2013) April 12, 2013 Jeff Leek Great scientist - statistics = lots of failed experiments April 10, 2013 Roger Peng Climate Science Day on Capitol Hill April 8, 2013 Rafael Irizarry NIH is looking for an Associate Director for Data Science: Statisticians should consider applying April 2, 2013 Jeff Leek Introducing the healthvis R package - one line D3 graphics with R March 26, 2013 Jeff Leek An instructor's thoughts on peer-review for data analysis in Coursera March 25, 2013 Roger Peng Podcast #6: Data Analysis MOOC Post-mortem March 24, 2013 Jeff Leek Sunday data/statistics link roundup (3/24/2013) March 21, 2013 Jeff Leek Youtube should check its checksums March 19, 2013 Jeff Leek Call for papers for a special issue of Statistical Analysis and Data Mining March 17, 2013 Jeff Leek Sunday data/statistics link roundup (3/17/13) March 14, 2013 Roger Peng Postdoctoral fellow position in reproducible research March 13, 2013 Roger Peng Here's my #ENAR2013 Wednesday schedule March 12, 2013 Roger Peng If I were at #ENAR2013 today, here's where I'd go March 10, 2013 Jeff Leek Sunday data/statistics link roundup (3/10/13) March 8, 2013 Jeff Leek Send me student/postdoc blogs in statistics and computational biology March 6, 2013 Jeff Leek The importance of simulating the extremes March 4, 2013 Roger Peng Big Data - Context = Bad March 3, 2013 Jeff Leek Sunday data/statistics link roundup (3/3/2013) Feb. 27, 2013 Steven Salzberg Please save the unsolicited R01s Feb. 25, 2013 Roger Peng Big data: Giving people what they want Feb. 24, 2013 Jeff Leek Sunday data/statistics link roundup (2/24/2013) Feb. 18, 2013 Roger Peng Tesla vs. NYT: Do the Data Really Tell All? Feb. 17, 2013 Jeff Leek Sunday data/statistics link roundup (2/17/2013) Feb. 15, 2013 Jeff Leek Interview with Nick Chamandy, statistician at Google Feb. 13, 2013 Jeff Leek I'm a young scientist and sequestration will hurt me Feb. 10, 2013 Jeff Leek Sunday data/statistics link roundup (2/10/2013) Feb. 6, 2013 Jeff Leek Issues with reproducibility at scale on Coursera Feb. 3, 2013 Jeff Leek Sunday data/statistics link roundup (2/3/2013) Jan. 31, 2013 Rafael Irizarry paste0 is statistical computing's most influential contribution of the 21st century Jan. 28, 2013 Rafael Irizarry Data supports claim that if Kobe stops ball hogging the Lakers will win more Jan. 27, 2013 Jeff Leek Sunday data/statistics link roundup (1/27/2013) Jan. 25, 2013 Jeff Leek My advanced methods class is now being live-tweeted Jan. 24, 2013 Jeff Leek Why I disagree with Andrew Gelman's critique of my paper about the rate of false discoveries in the medical literature Jan. 23, 2013 Jeff Leek Statisticians and computer scientists - if there is no code, there is no paper Jan. 20, 2013 Jeff Leek Sunday data/statistics link roundup (1/20/2013) Jan. 18, 2013 Roger Peng Comparing online and in-class outcomes Jan. 16, 2013 Jeff Leek R package meme Jan. 16, 2013 Roger Peng Review of R Graphics Cookbook by Winston Chang Jan. 14, 2013 Roger Peng Welcome to the Smog-ocalypse Jan. 13, 2013 Jeff Leek Sunday data/statistics link roundup (1/13/2013) Jan. 11, 2013 Rafael Irizarry NSF should understand that Statistics is not Mathematics Jan. 10, 2013 Jeff Leek The landscape of data analysis Jan. 8, 2013 Rafael Irizarry By introducing competition open online education will improve teaching at top universities Jan. 6, 2013 Jeff Leek Sunday data/statistics link roundup (1/6/2013) Jan. 4, 2013 Steven Salzberg Does NIH fund innovative work? Does Nature care about publishing accurate articles? Jan. 3, 2013 Jeff Leek The scientific reasons it is not helpful to study the Newtown shooter's DNA Jan. 2, 2013 Jeff Leek Fitbit, why can't I have my data? Jan. 1, 2013 Rafael Irizarry Happy 2013: The International Year of Statistics Dec. 31, 2012 Roger Peng What makes a good data scientist? Dec. 30, 2012 Jeff Leek Sunday data/statistics link roundup (12/30/12) Dec. 24, 2012 Jeff Leek Make a Christmas Tree in R with random ornaments/presents Dec. 23, 2012 Jeff Leek Sunday data/statistics link roundup 12/23/12 Dec. 20, 2012 Rafael Irizarry The NIH peer review system is still the best at identifying innovative biomedical investigators Dec. 19, 2012 Jeff Leek Rafa interviewed about statistical genomics Dec. 18, 2012 Jeff Leek The value of re-analysis Dec. 17, 2012 Jeff Leek Should the Cox Proportional Hazards model get the Nobel Prize in Medicine? Dec. 16, 2012 Jeff Leek Sunday data/statistics link roundup (12/16/12) Dec. 14, 2012 Roger Peng Computing for Data Analysis Returns Dec. 10, 2012 Rafael Irizarry Joe Blitzstein's free online stat course helps put a critical satellite in orbit Dec. 9, 2012 Jeff Leek Sunday data/statistics link roundup (12/9/12) Dec. 8, 2012 Roger Peng Dropping the Stick in Data Analysis Dec. 5, 2012 Admin Email is a to-do list made by other people - can someone make it more efficient?! Dec. 4, 2012 Rafael Irizarry Advice for students on the academic job market (2013 edition) Dec. 3, 2012 Roger Peng Data analysis acquisition "worst deal ever"? Dec. 2, 2012 Jeff Leek Sunday data/statistics link roundup (12/2/12) Nov. 30, 2012 Jeff Leek Statistical illiteracy may lead to parents panicking about Autism. Nov. 27, 2012 Rafael Irizarry I give up, I am embracing pie charts Nov. 26, 2012 Jeff Leek The statisticians at Fox News use classic and novel graphical techniques to lead with data Nov. 25, 2012 Jeff Leek Sunday data/statistics link roundup (11/25/2012) Nov. 24, 2012 Roger Peng Computer scientists discover statistics and find it useful Nov. 21, 2012 Roger Peng Developing the New York Times Visual Election Outcome Explorer Nov. 20, 2012 Jeff Leek A grand experiment in science funding Nov. 19, 2012 Roger Peng Podcast #5: Coursera Debrief Nov. 18, 2012 Admin Sunday Data/Statistics Link Roundup (11/18/12) Nov. 18, 2012 Roger Peng Welcome to Simply Statistics 2.0 Nov. 16, 2012 Admin Logo Contest Winner Nov. 15, 2012 Roger Peng Reproducible Research: With Us or Against Us? Nov. 9, 2012 Admin Interview with Tom Louis - New Chief Scientist at the Census Bureau Nov. 8, 2012 Admin Some academic thoughts on the poll aggregators Nov. 7, 2012 Admin Nate Silver does it again! 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Oct. 14, 2012 Admin Sunday Data/Statistics Link Roundup (10/14/12) Oct. 10, 2012 Admin What's wrong with the predicting h-index paper. Oct. 8, 2012 Admin Why we should continue publishing peer-reviewed papers Oct. 7, 2012 Admin Fraud in the Scientific Literature Oct. 7, 2012 Admin Sunday Data/Statistics Link Roundup (10/7/12) Oct. 5, 2012 Admin Not just one statistics interview...John McGready is the Jon Stewart of statistics Oct. 4, 2012 Admin Should we stop publishing peer-reviewed papers? Oct. 4, 2012 Admin Statistics project ideas for students (part 2) Oct. 3, 2012 Admin 2-D author lists Oct. 3, 2012 Admin This is an awesome paper all students in statistics should read Oct. 2, 2012 Admin The more statistics blogs the better Sept. 28, 2012 Admin John McGready interviews Jeff Leek Sept. 27, 2012 Admin John McGready interviews Roger Peng Sept. 27, 2012 Admin Simply statistics logo contest Sept. 26, 2012 Admin NBC Unpacks Trove of Data From Olympics Sept. 26, 2012 Admin Pro-tips for graduate students (Part 3) Sept. 24, 2012 Admin Computing for Data Analysis starts today! Sept. 23, 2012 Admin Sunday Data/Statistics Link Roundup (9/23/12) Sept. 21, 2012 Admin Prediction contest Sept. 20, 2012 Admin Every professor is a startup Sept. 20, 2012 Admin In data science - it's the problem, stupid! Sept. 18, 2012 Admin Chinese Company to Acquire DNA Sequencing Firm Sept. 18, 2012 Admin Online Mentors to Guide Women Into the Sciences Sept. 16, 2012 Admin Sunday Data/Statistics Link Roundup (9/16/12) Sept. 15, 2012 Admin Statistical analysis suggests the Washington Nationals were wrong to shut down Stephen Strasburg Sept. 14, 2012 Admin The statistical method made me lie Sept. 13, 2012 Admin An experimental foundation for statistics Sept. 13, 2012 Admin Coursera introduces three courses in statistics Sept. 10, 2012 Admin The pebbles of academia Sept. 9, 2012 Admin Sunday Data/Statistics Link Roundup (9/9/12) Sept. 8, 2012 Admin Big Data in Your Blood Sept. 8, 2012 Admin The Weatherman Is Not a Moron Sept. 7, 2012 Admin Simply Statistics Podcast #3: Interview with Steven Salzberg Sept. 7, 2012 Admin Top-down versus bottom-up science: data analysis edition Sept. 6, 2012 Admin Simply Statistics Podcast #2 Sept. 5, 2012 Admin How long should the next podcast be? 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Mainframe Evolves to Serve the Digital World Aug. 29, 2012 Admin Increasing the cost of data analysis Aug. 28, 2012 Admin Active in Cloud, Amazon Reshapes Computing Aug. 28, 2012 Admin Genes Now Tell Doctors Secrets They Can’t Utter Aug. 27, 2012 Admin A deterministic statistical machine Aug. 26, 2012 Admin Sunday data/statistics link roundup (8/26/12) Aug. 25, 2012 Admin Judge Rules Poker Is A Game Of Skill, Not Luck Aug. 24, 2012 Admin Simply Statistics Podcast #1 Aug. 23, 2012 Admin Science Exchange starts Reproducibility Initiative Aug. 22, 2012 Admin Data Startups from Y Combinator Demo Day Aug. 22, 2012 Admin Harvard chooses statistician to lead Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Aug. 21, 2012 Admin NSF recognizes math and statistics are not the same thing...kind of Aug. 21, 2012 Admin Recommended updates from Google Scholar Aug. 17, 2012 Admin Interview with C. Titus Brown - Computational biologist and open access champion Aug. 14, 2012 Admin Statistics/statisticians need better marketing Aug. 13, 2012 Admin Big-Data Investing Gets Its Own Supergroup Aug. 13, 2012 Admin Johns Hopkins University Professor Louis Named to Lead Census Bureau Research Directorate Aug. 12, 2012 Admin How Big Data Became So Big Aug. 12, 2012 Admin Sunday data/statistics link roundup (8/12/12) Aug. 11, 2012 Admin When dealing with poop, it's best to just get your hands dirty Aug. 10, 2012 Admin Why we are teaching massive open online courses (MOOCs) in R/statistics for Coursera Aug. 9, 2012 Admin A non-exhaustive list of things I have failed to accomplish Aug. 8, 2012 Admin On the relative importance of mathematical abstraction in graduate statistical education Aug. 7, 2012 Admin My worst nightmare... Aug. 6, 2012 Admin In which Brian debates abstraction with T-Bone Aug. 6, 2012 Admin Samuel Kou wins COPSS Award July 31, 2012 Admin If I were at #JSM2012 today, here's where I'd go. July 31, 2012 Admin NYC and Columbia to Create Institute for Data Sciences & Engineering July 30, 2012 Admin Why I'm Staying in Academia July 29, 2012 Admin In Sliding Internet Stocks, Some Hear Echo of 2000 July 29, 2012 Admin Statistician (@cocteau) to show journalists how it's done July 28, 2012 Admin Predictive analytics might not have predicted the Aurora shooter July 28, 2012 Admin Tweet up #JSM2012 July 28, 2012 Admin When Picking a C.E.O. Is More Random Than Wise July 27, 2012 Admin Congress to Examine Data Sellers July 27, 2012 Admin How important is abstract thinking for graduate students in statistics? July 26, 2012 Admin Online education: many academics are missing the point July 26, 2012 Admin Smartphones, Big Data Help Fix Boston's Potholes July 26, 2012 Admin Voters Say They Are Wary of Ads Made Just for Them July 25, 2012 Admin Buy your own analytics startup for $15,000 (at least as of now) July 25, 2012 Admin Really Big Objects Coming to R July 24, 2012 Admin A Contest for Sequencing Genomes Has Its First Entry in Ion Torrent July 24, 2012 Admin I.B.M. Is No Longer a Tech Bellwether (It's too busy doing statistics) July 24, 2012 Admin Proof by example and letters of recommendation July 23, 2012 Admin Facebook's Real Big Data Problem July 23, 2012 Admin Medalball: Moneyball for the olympics July 23, 2012 Admin We used, you know, that statistics thingy July 22, 2012 Admin Sunday Data/Statistics Link Roundup (7/22/12) July 21, 2012 Admin Big Data on Campus July 21, 2012 Admin Risks in Big Data Attract Big Law Firms July 20, 2012 Admin Interview with Lauren Talbot - Quantitative analyst for the NYC Financial Crime Task Force July 19, 2012 Admin Big data is worth nothing without big science July 19, 2012 Admin Help me find the good JSM talks July 18, 2012 Admin A closer look at data suggests Johns Hopkins is still the #1 US hospital July 18, 2012 Admin Johns Hopkins Coursera Statistics Courses July 18, 2012 Admin Top Universities Test the Online Appeal of Free July 17, 2012 Admin Free Statistics Courses on Coursera July 17, 2012 Admin Universities Reshaping Education on the Web July 15, 2012 Admin Bits: Betaworks Buys What's Left of Social News Site Digg July 15, 2012 Admin Sunday Data/Statistics Link Roundup (7/15/12) July 14, 2012 Admin Bits: Mobile App Developers Scoop Up Vast Amounts of Data, Reports Say July 13, 2012 Admin GDP Figures in China are for "reference" only July 13, 2012 Admin This is Not About Statistics But It is About Emacs July 12, 2012 Admin Statistical Reasoning on iTunes U July 12, 2012 Admin What is the most important code you write? July 11, 2012 Admin How Does the Film Industry Actually Make Money? July 11, 2012 Admin My worst (recent) experience with peer review July 9, 2012 Admin A Northwest Pipeline to Silicon Valley July 9, 2012 Admin Skepticism+Ideas+Grit July 4, 2012 Admin The power of power July 3, 2012 Admin Replication and validation in -omics studies - just as important as reproducibility July 2, 2012 Admin Computing and Sustainability: What Can Be Done? July 2, 2012 Admin Meet the Skeptics: Why Some Doubt Biomedical Models - and What it Takes to Win Them Over July 1, 2012 Admin Sunday data/statistics link roundup (7/1) June 29, 2012 Admin Obamacare is not going to solve the health care crisis, but a new initiative, led by a statistician, may help June 28, 2012 Admin Motivating statistical projects June 27, 2012 Admin Follow up on "Statistics and the Science Club" June 27, 2012 Admin The price of skepticism June 26, 2012 Admin Hilary Mason: From Tiny Links, Big Insights June 26, 2012 Admin The problem with small big data June 25, 2012 Admin A specific suggestion to help recruit/retain women faculty at Hopkins June 25, 2012 Admin The Evolution of Music June 24, 2012 Admin Sunday data/statistics link roundup (6/24) June 22, 2012 Admin Statistics and the Science Club June 20, 2012 Admin Pro Tips for Grad Students in Statistics/Biostatistics (Part 2) June 19, 2012 Admin E.P.A. Casts New Soot Standard as Easily Met June 18, 2012 Admin Pro Tips for Grad Students in Statistics/Biostatistics (Part 1) June 17, 2012 Admin Sunday data/statistics link roundup (6/17) June 15, 2012 Admin Statisticians, ASA, and Big Data June 12, 2012 Admin Big Data Needs May Create Thousands Of Tech Jobs June 12, 2012 Admin Green: E.P.A. Soot Rules Expected This Week June 12, 2012 Admin Poison gas or...air pollution? June 11, 2012 Admin Chris Volinsky knows where you are June 11, 2012 Admin Getting a grant...or a startup June 10, 2012 Admin Sunday data/statistics link roundup (6/10) June 5, 2012 Admin China Asks Embassies to Stop Measuring Air Pollution June 4, 2012 Admin How Big Data Gets Real June 1, 2012 Admin Interview with Amanda Cox - Graphics Editor at the New York Times May 31, 2012 Admin Writing software for someone else May 30, 2012 Admin Why "no one reads the statistics literature anymore" May 29, 2012 Admin View my Statistics for Genomics lectures on Youtube and ask questions on facebook/twitter May 28, 2012 Admin Schlep blindness in statistics May 27, 2012 Admin Sunday data/statistics link roundup (5/27) May 24, 2012 Admin "How do we evaluate statisticians working in genomics? Why don't they publish in stats journals?" Here is my answer May 20, 2012 Admin Sunday data/statistics link roundup (5/20) May 16, 2012 Admin Health by numbers: A statistician's challenge May 16, 2012 Admin The Numbers Don't Lie May 14, 2012 Admin Computational biologist blogger saves computer science department May 14, 2012 Admin Facebook Needs to Turn Data Into Investor Gold May 13, 2012 Admin Sunday data/statistics link roundup (5/13) May 11, 2012 Admin Interview with Hadley Wickham - Developer of ggplot2 May 10, 2012 Admin What are the products of data analysis? May 9, 2012 Admin DealBook: Glaxo to Make Hostile Bid for Human Genome Sciences May 8, 2012 Admin Data analysis competition combines statistics with speed May 7, 2012 Admin How do you know if someone is great at data analysis? May 6, 2012 Admin Illumina stays independent, for now May 5, 2012 Admin UCLA Data Fest 2012 May 4, 2012 Admin Hammer on the importance of statistics May 4, 2012 Admin New National Academy of Sciences Members May 2, 2012 Admin GE's Billion-Dollar Bet on Big Data May 2, 2012 Admin Just like regular communism, dongle communism has failed May 1, 2012 Admin Sample mix-ups in datasets from large studies are more common than you think April 30, 2012 Admin A disappointing response from @NatureMagazine about folks with statistical skills April 29, 2012 Admin Sunday data/statistics link roundup (4/29) April 27, 2012 Admin People in positions of power that don't understand statistics are a big problem for genomics April 26, 2012 Admin Nature is hiring a data editor...how will they make sense of the data? April 25, 2012 Admin How do I know if my figure is too complicated? April 24, 2012 Admin On the future of personalized medicine April 22, 2012 Admin Sunday data/statistics link roundup (4/22) April 18, 2012 Admin Replication, psychology, and big science April 16, 2012 Admin Roche: Illumina Is No Apple April 15, 2012 Admin Sunday data/statistics link roundup (4/15) April 13, 2012 Admin Interview with Drew Conway - Author of "Machine Learning for Hackers" April 12, 2012 Admin The Problem with Universities April 11, 2012 Admin Statistics is not math... April 10, 2012 Admin Evolution, Evolved April 9, 2012 Admin Sunday data/statistics link roundup (4/8) April 9, 2012 Admin What is a major revision? April 5, 2012 Admin Study Says DNA’s Power to Predict Illness Is Limited April 4, 2012 Admin Epigenetics: Marked for success April 3, 2012 Admin ENAR Meeting March 30, 2012 Admin New U.S. Research Will Aim at Flood of Digital Data March 30, 2012 Admin R 2.15.0 is released March 29, 2012 Admin Big Data Meeting at AAAS March 29, 2012 Admin Roche Raises Illumina Bid to $51, Seeking Faster Deal March 27, 2012 Admin Justices Send Back Gene Case March 26, 2012 Admin R and the little data scientist's predicament March 26, 2012 Admin Supreme court vacates ruling on BRCA gene patent! March 25, 2012 Admin Some thoughts from Keith Baggerly on the recently released IOM report on translational omics March 25, 2012 Admin Sunday data/statistics link roundup (3/25) March 23, 2012 Admin This graph shows that President Obama's proposed budget treats the NIH even worse than G.W. Bush - Sign the petition to increase NIH funding! 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