Qdata

08/08/2021

Abstract. Our objective was to estimate the diagnostic accuracy of real-time polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) and lateral flow immunoassay (LFIA) tests for co

06/03/2021

Visualizzazione di grande impatto sul NYT! Ogni punto una vita persa a causa del COVID-19.

24/06/2019

Wow! I was listening a recent episode of the “Storytelling with data” podcast by Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic. It was an interview with Alberto Cairo who came up recommending an awesome tool for data visualization: iNZight! Interestingly iNZight is entirely based on R code and in its latest releases ...

13/02/2019

In general, R loads all data into memory while SAS allocates memory dynamically to keep data on disk. This makes SAS a better solution for handling very large datasets. I often need to work with la…

24/01/2019

Elasticsearch is a search engine based on the Lucene library. It provides a distributed full-text search engine with an HTTP web interface and schema-free JSON documents. Elasticsearch is becoming …

11/05/2017

Un servizio puntuale ed efficace di analisi statistica e formazione.

02/03/2017

R vs. Python. Una bellissima infografica dal sito DataCamp!

https://www.datacamp.com/community/tutorials/r-or-python-for-data-analysis .Lt5uTOo

Wondering whether you should use R or Python for your next data analysis post? Check our infographic "Data Science Wars: R vs Python".

03/12/2016

Ogni tanto è utile cambiare prospettiva!

Martin Lindstrom : basta grandi numeri. Bisogna entrare in contatto con le emozioni delle persone

01/11/2016

Watch BergamoScienza's BIG DATA: LA RIVOLUZIONE DIGITALE NELLA SCIENZA E NELLA SOCIETA' on Livestream.com. Questo mio intervento vuole avere risvolti e chiavi di lettura non soltanto scientifici, ma in qualche misura etici, economici e, soprattutto, culturali. Se non c’è cultura, non c’è neppure svi...

28/05/2016

https://www.statslife.org.uk/features/2792-medical-research-needs-data-scientists-statistics-funding-at-mrc

Medical research needs data scientists like never before. Dr David Crosby, programme manager for methodology and experimental medicine at the Medical Research Council (MRC), explains why - and whi

10/10/2015

Da un'articolo di Scientific American uno sguardo interessante sul finanziamento dei progetti di ricerca! http://www.roars.it/online/human-brain-project-e-big-science-non-tutto-e-oro-quel-che-luccica/

Segnaliamo ai lettori un interessante articolo apparso su Scientific American, che riassume e commenta le travagliate vicissitudini dello Human Brain Project – uno dei due progetti bandiera, …

29/09/2015

Come cambia (o dovrebbe cambiare) l'insegnamento della statistica ... http://www.statslife.org.uk/opinion/2485-how-will-introductory-statistics-teaching-change-lessons-from-the-international-conference-on-teaching-statistics

Last summer I was fortunate to attend ICOTS, the ninth International Conference on Teaching Statistics, in Flagstaff, Arizona. ICOTS takes place every four years, and is an international gatherin