Welcome to Wonderful Wednesday

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: Alzheimer demographic data set

The challenge is to give a comprehensive visual overview of the demographic data and baseline characteristics.

Further details can be found here.

Process & timeline:

Dataset: Click here to download the data*Dataset introduction: Webinar 21 from November 10th (available on VoD)
Submission: Click here to submitDeadline: December 1st
Next webinar: Click here to register Date: December 8th

* 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

Upcoming Webinars

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The 2021 Monthly Webinars

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 VisSIG Wonderful Wednesdays

Our monthly webinar explores examples of innovative data visualisations relevant to our day to day work. Each month a new dataset is provided from a clinical trial or other relevant example, and participants are invited to submit a graphic that communicates interesting and relevant characteristics of the data.

PSI Book Club

PSI are starting a book club! We will be reading/discussing non-technical books relevant to our roles. Participants will be split into smaller groups to network with each other and practice exercises.

PSI Training Course: Use of Historical Data in Clinical Trials: An Evidence Synthesis Approach

In this short course, we will provide a statistical framework to incorporate external information into a trial. Bayesian Dynamic Borrowing designs based on the meta-analytic predictive (MAP) model will be detailed, and a practice session will be proposed with applications using the R package RBesT.

PSI Webinar: Tipping Point Analyses - Introduction & Case Studies

What is a tipping point analysis, and how is one performed? What are the different approaches for continuous, binary and time to event data? Our speakers will present and discuss some practical examples.

PSI Medical Statistics Careers Event

Our annual PSI Medical Statistics Careers Event, will be held online on Wednesday 2nd March 2022. The event will include a live online panel discussion and a virtual exhibition session.

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