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 ...

Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) has become one of the most widely used technologies in basic biology. With the rise of scRNA-seq, the use of UMAP has become ubiquitous in publications. While ...

In my previous post I pointed out a major problem with big data is that applied statistics have been left out. But many cool ideas in applied statistics are really relevant for big data analysis. So I ...

Statisticians have been pointing out the problem with dynamite plots, also known as bar and line graphs, for years. Karl Broman lists them as one of the top ten worst graphs. The problem has even been ...

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 ...

Recently, I was listening in on the conversation of some colleagues who were discussing a bug in their R code. The bug was ultimately traced back to the well-known phenomenon that functions like ‘read ...

I’ve spent the better part of my career advocating for the increased publication of code that is used in data analysis. This effort to make data analysis more reproducible is largely focused around ...

The intentional ambiguity of the R language, inherited from the S language, is one of its defining features. Is it an interactive system for data analysis or is it a sophisticated programming language ...

Although R is great for quickly turning data into plots, it is not widely used for making publication ready figures. But, with enough tinkering you can make almost any plot in R. For examples check ...

Update: The ggjoy package has been deprecated. The ggridges CRAN package provides the same functionality. I dislike violin plots because they look like Christmas ornaments. It’s a pet peeve but there ...

Okay, so this schedule actually requires me to split myself in to three separate entities. However, if you find a way to do that, the 8:30-10:15am block is full of good stuff.

Russell “Taki” Shinohara was selected as 2023 Moritmer Spiegelman Award recipient. Dr. Shinohara was selected from an incredibly deep and talented pool of candidates who collectively represent the ...