I’ve seen many claims suggesting that NIH indirect costs are wasted or used to subsidize non-research activities. However, based on my experience in budget and space allocation meetings, as well as ...

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 ...

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 ...

I read this really interesting paper over the break, where they had multiple analyst teams analyze the same data set and fit a model to answer the same question. This is a topic we’ve thought about a ...

“If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck but it needs batteries, you probably have the wrong abstraction” Derick Bailey This book is about artificial intelligence. The term “artificial ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

What does it mean for a data analysis to fail? I’ve come to feel that this is an important question because considering the ways that data analyses can fail is a good way to prevent an analysis from ...

Like a lot of people, I’ve been glued to various media channels trying to learn about the latest with what is going on with COVID-19. I have also been frustrated - like a lot of people - with ...

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 ...