Eric Polley

R/Medicine 2026 Call for Proposal extended one week to March 13

The R/Medicine Call for Proposals has been extended by one week!

New deadline: March 13

First-time speakers are encouraged! Need feedback on your abstract? rmedicine.conference@gmail.com

rconsortium.github.io/RMedicine_we...

#rstats #opensource #healthcare

Statistics Is a Journey, Not a Destination A website for new statistics professionals navigating a data-centric world

Nice summary on the role of the statistician in clinical research (spoiler, it is not the sample size calculation): stattrak.amstat.org/2026/03/02/c...

ENAR 2026 invited Session, title: "Leveraging External Information in the Design and Analysis of Clinical Trials in the AI Era" with Ted Karrison, Herbert Pang, Mei Polley, Lorenzo Trippa, and Matt Schipper. March 16th, at 1:45 - 3:30PM.

Upcoming session on leveraging external information for the design and analysis of clinical trials at #ENAR2026

R Medicine 2026 - main graphic - Call for Proposal, deadline March 6

R/Medicine CFP is open 🩺🧪

Deadline: March 6 - still time!

Submit: Talks, Lightning Talks, Demos, Workshops - Using R + Shiny for health, lab, clinical data

First-time speaker? Email for feedback: rmedicine.conference@gmail.com

rconsortium.github.io/RMedicine_we...

#rstats #datascience

ANNOUNCE: Nominations are open for the prestigious ASA Statistical Computing and Graphic Award. 🎖️

It recognizes innovation in computing, software, or graphics that has had a significant impact on statistical practice or research.
#rstats #stats

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And in the Midwest, Time

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“As appropriate”

quartets: Datasets to Help Teach Statistics In the spirit of Anscombe's quartet, this package includes datasets that demonstrate the importance of visualizing your data, the importance of not relying on statistical summary measures alone, and w...

Quartets has a few (fun) datasets I like to use: cran.r-project.org/web/packages...

How many bonus points for responding in punch card?

We learned today that Paul Rathouz of UT-Austin (previously Chicago and UW-Madison) died on Dec. 10.

Few people I've known have enwrapped their brilliance with such modesty, decency, and good humor.

A mensch's mensch. RIP.

Huge Collection of Laptop Sticker Art Stickertop.art is a massive collection of the tops of laptop computers adorned with stickers. Laptop stickers are m

kottke.org/25/12/huge-c...

Peter Bickel’s Historical Overview of the UC Berkeley Department of Statistics YouTube video by Berkeley Statistics

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Bickel’s historical overview of the UC Berkeley dept of statistics

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Ok, I’ll admit, I still reference Wikipedia in some of my lectures

Hi, It’s Me, Wikipedia, and I Am Ready for Your Apology “Wikipedia, the constantly changing knowledge base created by a global free-for-all of anonymous users, now stands as the leading force for the dum...

www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/hi-...

Great lecture on Stepped Wedge designs:

Had this debate at a faculty meeting recently. Some memorable quotes.

A shift in the operational definition of Research & Development

🗺️ Upcoming Workshop: “Intro to Spatial Data in R”

🗓️ Thursday, October 23, 2025
🕤 9:30–11:30 AM CDT
💻 Virtual; Register here: go.illinois.edu/GCCP-OCT23

This workshop is presented as part of the JCOIN Geospatial Consortium & Community of Practice (GCCP).
👉 gccp.healthyregions.org

Job Opportunities Alert

Associate Professor of Data Science: apply.interfolio.com/174768

Assistant Professor of Data Science: apply.interfolio.com/174766

EOE/Vet/Disability

Causal Bandits Podcast Causal Bandits Podcast: Causal AI, causality, causal inference, discovery, DAGs, machine learning and more!

Nice discussion with Mark van der Laan, covering many topics including the history of TMLE, and future efforts: causalbanditspodcast.com

SDOH&Place annual symposium next week in Chicago: symposium2025.sdohplace.org

Screenshot of the CRAN Task View "Clinical Trial Design, Monitoring, and Analysis" at https://CRAN.R-project.org/view=ClinicalTrials

🚨 Relaunch of CRAN Task View: Clinical Trial Design, Monitoring, and Analysis
#rstats

Complete rewrite by an int'l team of experts in #clinicaltrials

Ya Wang, Thomas Jaki @thomasjaki.bsky.social, Laura Pascasio Harris, Orla Doyle, Elias Laurin Meyer, Wilmar Igl

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Twenty-Five Things You Didn't Know You Could Do with R Explore 25 novel ways to utilize R, including pulling data from various sources, data visualization, mapping, using Quarto for reporting, automating tasks,.

Great set of R tips and helpful packages: rfortherestofus.com/2025/06/twen...

The Risks of Risk Assessment: Causal Blind Spots When Using Prediction Models for Treatment Decisions | Annals of Internal Medicine Clinicians increasingly rely on prediction models to guide treatment choices. Most prediction models, however, are developed using observational data that include some patients who have already receiv...

New paper in @annalsofim.bsky.social

"50 ways to misinterpret clinical prediction models for treatment decisions”

--> Published version: www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/...

--> Open access version: arxiv.org/pdf/2402.17366

More like 48 minutes/week of dread before being able to start work on a redesign

Preparing for health care careers: UChicago master’s programs in biomedical sciences and public health Flexible programs equip students with real-world skills across variety of fields

news.uchicago.edu/story/prepar...

The style guide states this should be statistically significant, not just significant.

And then introduce notation to reinvent them?