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Tuesday 28th February 2012
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Introduction to R for Data Mining
This tutorial will enable anyone with some programming experience to begin analyzing data with the R programming language
Syllabus
- Where did R come from?
- What makes R different from other statistical software?
- Data structures in R
- Reading and writing data sets
- Manipulating Data
- Basic statistics in R
- Exploratory Data Analysis
- Multiple Regression
- Logistic Regression
- Data mining in R
- Cluster analysis
- Classification algorithms
- Working with Big Data
- Challenges
- Extensions to R for big data
- Where to go from here?
- The R community
- Resources for learning R
- Getting help
Wednesday 29th February 2012
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The Information Architecture of Medicine is Broken
by Ben Goldacre
I am a doctor and a data geek. I worry that data geeks are too easily seduced by the glamour of laboratory science and forget about clinics. Randomised controlled trials are the best tool we have in medicine for finding out if a treatment works or not. Lots of trials are done. Unfortunately, the results of these trials can go missing in action after they are completed.
Missing data is always a challenge: but we also know that “negative results” are more likely to go missing. This means we have a biased sample, overestimating the benefits of treatments. To prevent all this happening, people have set up registers of trial protocols, to be completed before trials begin. These have not been correctly used, and they are not matched to published trials, which show up what data has been left unpublished.
I will describe a small project to fix this, illustrate how that can lead on to fixing other similar problems in medicine, and make a cry for help.
Strata 2012
United States United States, Santa Clara
28th February to 1st March 2012
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