Author: Sander Timmer

PhD student in computational genetics at Cambridge University and EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute
Dangerous trends in studies performed by pharmaceutical companies

Dangerous trends in studies performed by pharmaceutical companies

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In their post-release studies they don't focus on risk assessment but more or the less on finding new marketing messages.

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According to the whistleblower, the results of these studies were often dubious. “We occasionally resorted to ‘playing’ with the data that had originally failed to show the expected result,” he says. “This was done by altering the statistical method until any statistical significance was found.” He adds that the company sometimes omitted negative results and played down harmful side effects. After all, post-marketing studies don’t face the scrutiny that pre-approval studies do.
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Nature News Blog: Advertising masked as science? : Nature News Blog
A former pharmaceutical company employee blows the whistle on drug promotion disguised as science in an editorial published today. Read more

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Using ggplot2 in R for creating barplots with faced_grid is such a great way to quickly plot massive data frames in a pretty way

Using ggplot2 in R for creating barplots with faced_grid is such a great way to quickly plot massive data frames in a pretty way

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Using ggplot2 in R for creating barplots with faced_grid is such a great way to quickly plot massive data frames in a pretty way. #winning #R #ggplot2

ggplot2: Barplots
One R Tip A Day uses R basic graphics to visualise migration to the United States during 1820-2006. Again, as usual, let’s reproduce this in ggplot2. First, load ggplot2 and dataset > libr…

Using ggplot2 in R for creating barplots with faced_grid is such a great way to quickly…

Using ggplot2 in R for creating barplots with faced_grid is such a great way to quickly…

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Using ggplot2 in R for creating barplots with faced_grid is such a great way to quickly plot massive data frames in a pretty way. #winning   #R   #ggplot2  

ggplot2: Barplots
One R Tip A Day uses R basic graphics to visualise migration to the United States during 1820-2006. Again, as usual, let’s reproduce this in ggplot2. First, load ggplot2 and dataset > libr…

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In dedication to your Queen dressing up is inevitable and should be strongly encouraged….

In dedication to your Queen dressing up is inevitable and should be strongly encouraged….

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In dedication to your Queen dressing up is inevitable and should be strongly encouraged. Looking at all the dressed up British people last weekend it looks like they also should get their own proper anual Queens day, they are ready for it! 

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About me

I am a Lead Data Scientist at Microsoft in the World-Wide Data Insights CTO office focusing on cloud solutions for the Internet-of-Things, Big Data, Deep Learning, and Machine Learning. I obtained my PhD at the University of Cambridge specialising in Big Data Biology while being based at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) and the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL).

In my previous "academic life", I was working in Ewan Birney's research group. My main subject was understanding non-coding variation using genome-wide molecular assays, like FAIRE and CTCF, onto Human cell line populations. Another research interest was identification of whole-body phenotypes in Human MRI scans using Machine Learning techniques.

Furthermore, I'm the co-founder of Rijschoolvergelijker. The largest driving school comparison website in the Netherlands with European ambitions.

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