Posted on May 13, 2016
On Repeated Medical “testing”
I’ve blogged about this before, but I wanted to revisit because FiveThirtyEight, whom I love and adore, just posted about it again, in light of the recent Theranos problems. My last blog post was long, so let me… Read More
Posted on May 7, 2015
When the “Quantified Self” meets Medical Reality
So, there was a bit of a twitter row a few weeks ago when Mark Cuban and a number of healthcare people got in a debate about the frequency of lab testing. Â Mark posted a tweet that started,… Read More
Posted on January 12, 2015
Bad Science or Bad Grammar? Homeopathy, GMO, and Chip’s rantings…
Here’s another “science battles” trend that bothers me. Â There’s a lot of frustration on the internet with this or that being bad science, and for the most part I’m on the side of science. Â People do some really… Read More
Posted on July 29, 2013
Adding a quick lunar calendar to the data mart
I ran across an article at Popular Science citing research that correlated Heart Surgery outcomes to the Lunar Calendar. That’s right… the claim is that you are more likely to survive and to spend less time in the… Read More
Posted on June 16, 2013
R Slopegraphs and the HHP Leaderboard
I’m still working on my visualization-fu, so when the Heritage Health Prize finally got announced, the final scores provided a simple source of data that I wanted to investigate. I’ve written about the HHP before.  After spending three years with… Read More