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Any Android users around here that use +Google Play Music apps and use the offline sync functionality?
I want to clean up my SD card but haven't found an easy way yet to unselect my offline synced music quickly. Especially songs added from playlists have to be found one-by-one and then deselected. Tips/Suggestions?
Google Play Music quickly removed pinned offline music
When starting with the Google Music (or Play Music) app I’ve selected quite a few albums for offline syncing over time. Is there a way to quickly get an overview of my offline music and remove it? Whe…
Any Android users around here that use +Google Play Music apps and use the offline…
Any Android users around here that use +Google Play Music apps and use the offline sync functionality?
I want to clean up my SD card but haven't found an easy way yet to unselect my offline synced music quickly. Especially songs added from playlists have to be found one-by-one and then deselected. Tips/Suggestions?
Google Play Music quickly removed pinned offline music
When starting with the Google Music (or Play Music) app I’ve selected quite a few albums for offline syncing over time. Is there a way to quickly get an overview of my offline music and remove it? Whe…
Dangerous trends in studies performed by pharmaceutical companies. 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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A former pharmaceutical company employee blows the whistle on drug promotion disguised as science in an editorial published today. Read more
Dangerous trends in studies performed by pharmaceutical companies
In their post-release studies they don't focus on risk assessment but more or the less on finding new marketing messages.
To quote:
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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
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. #winning #R #ggplot2
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…