Welcome to Wonderful Wednesdays

Get involved and develop your data visualisation knowledge & skills.

Here's how it works:

  • Each month a new challenge will be provided, including access to the relevant dataset.
  • Download the data, and develop your own data visualisations.
  • Develop your graphics and code (using any programming language or tool) and submit your entry.
  • Attend the monthly webinar, to hear your submission discussed by our expert panel. Alternatively, please feel free to simply attend the webinars, view the submitted graphics and listen to the panel discussion.

Current Example: Multidimensional Quality of life

The challenge for the next webinar is to find ways to visualize the treatment effect of the DLQI possibly reflecting the multidimensional nature of this quality of life index, that is very specific to dermatological illnesses. Putting a lot of information in a graphical display must be weighed against highlighting to important results. We’re looking forward seeing your ideas.

The study design is relatively simple with two treatment arms and only two measurements, i.e. only one post-baseline value of the DLQI and its ten subscores. At baseline the PASI was measured in addition.

Further details can be found here.

Process & timeline:

Dataset: Click here to download*Dataset introduction: Webinar 11 from Jan 13th (available on VoD)
Submission: Click here to submitDeadline: February 3rd 
Next webinar: Click here to register Date: February 10th

* NOTE to download a single data set as a csv file, click on the raw button and save the file. The following link describes the process in further detail

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Blog

Details of previous Wonderful Wednesdays can be found on our blog site. Each blog entry includes:
• Submitted visualisations
• A summary of the panel discussion
• Submitted code

 

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Upcoming Events

PSI Webinar: Wearable Technologies - Challenges and Opportunities

Wearable technologies and digital health data offer great opportunities for studying patients functionally in real life settings. Actigraphy, for example, can be used as part of clinical trials to collect continuous movement data, but the frequency of data collection results in dense datasets requiring extensive processing and signal detection. In this webinar, a panel of expert speakers will discuss how such aspects can be addressed to help realize the promise of these technologies.

PSI Medical Statistics Careers Event

Our annual PSI Medical Statistics Careers Event, will be held online using the Career Fair Plus app on Wednesday 3rd March 2021. The event will include a live online panel discussion and a virtual exhibition session.

PSI Leadership event: Lunchtime conversation with Chrissie Fletcher & Andy Grieve

Join this lunchtime event to hear an informal discussion about statistical leadership with Chrissie Fletcher and Andy Grieve.

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