59,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes. That’s 59 zettabytes or 59 sextillion pieces of discrete information. Don’t feel bad; I had to look up those words too. That is the total amount of data estimated to have been generated through 11:59 pm on December 31, 2020, according to the International Data Corporation, since the start of the digital age. […]

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59,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes. That’s 59 zettabytes or 59 sextillion pieces of discrete information. Don’t feel bad; I had to look up those words too. That is the total amount of data estimated to have been generated through 11:59 pm on December 31, 2020, according to the International Data Corporation, since the start of the digital age. … Continue reading CDS for Non-Data Scientists Part 2: Resources for Bridging the Gap

“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.”  — Dr. Seuss Years of college and training. Professional certification. Memorizing what seems like an entire periodic table of data management acronyms: CDISC, CDM, CRF, eCRF, EDC, SOP, UAT. Tests. More tests. Clinical data managers spend their careers […]

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“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.”  — Dr. Seuss Years of college and training. Professional certification. Memorizing what seems like an entire periodic table of data management acronyms: CDISC, CDM, CRF, eCRF, EDC, SOP, UAT. Tests. More tests. Clinical data managers spend their careers … Continue reading User Acceptance Testing (UAT): The One Test Every Data Manager Should Try to Fail

Einstein is often attributed to saying, “If I had an hour to save the world, I would spend 55 minutes defining the problem.” In that spirit, we begin by defining what we mean by clinical data science, at least for the purposes of this blog series. CDS is the application of data science to medical […]

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