Considerations for pharmacoepidemiology study design

Series: causal inference

Right now, an unorganized list of concepts I don’t want to forget about. Pharmacoepidemiology, general Rapid changes in the natural history of a disease or changes in treatment decisions will mean strong effects in relation to calendar time. Example: The management of COVID-19 improved throughout the pandemic independent of medication use. If you wanted to assess the comparative effectiveness of a drug, you would need to control for calendar time.

SSH keys and CNAME and DNS for Dum Dums (aka ME)

Series: debugging

Because this stuff confused the ever-loving heck outta me. SSH Keys To start: you can’t use a Username/Password combination to push to a GitHub repository. They took it away, I assume because it’s less secure than other authentication methods. I begin with GitHub because that’s what brought me to needing to understand more about SSH keys. I - embarrassingly - had originally thought that you only couldn’t use your Username/Password from RStudio.

Causal Inference - a language & symbols cheat sheet

Series: causal inference

The “notes” category indicates that much of this post is my summary and interpretation from sources I’m using to learn about a topic of interest. As such, most of the following are not my original thoughts. Learning hard stuff is hard, and it continues to be hard long after you would like it to have become easier. It’s that ‘I know this but I also don’t KNOW this" feeling.

Notes on Mediation Analysis, Part II

Series: mediation analysis

I’m spending the last semester of my masters working on an independent study project on causal mediation analysis. It seemed a perfect opportunity to try this Learning in Public thing for the first time. I’m currenlty adding to this post on an almost daily basis. This is Part II in a two-part series. Part I covers general mediation concepts and terminology. This is where I dive into some of the more complex issues in mediation analysis.

Resources

Here is a list of resources that I found useful when learning…something! Building this website Mike Dane’s video series about Hugo Alison Hill’s post about using blogdown and Hugo. Alison is also one of the author’s of the Hugo theme I’m using: Hugo Apéro. The blogdown documentation Updating my programming skills Mike Dane’s video series on Python3 Installing Homebrew on an M1 chip Mac

Notes on Mediation Analysis, Part I

Series: mediation analysis

I’m spending the last semester of my masters working on an independent study project on causal mediation analysis. It seemed a perfect opportunity to try this Learning in Public thing. I’m currenlty adding to this post on an almost daily basis. Part I covers general mediation concepts and terminology. Part II covers more complex issues in mediation analysis. Corrections or requests welcome in the comments section! Note: most of these notes are not specific to analysis in any language, but if I use code samples they will be in R.

open-ended projects & march madness

Before I ramble too much, click here for the live dashboard. While I had done a bit of data visualization in my college years, my real data-viz-in-R journey was spring-boarded by a class I took in the first year of my masters at Duke (Data Visualization in R, if you’ll believe it, taught by Dr. Eric Green). We had an open-ended final project to close out the course. When I was a lil engineering undergrad, I dreaded open-ended assignments, and rarely had them.

#TidyTuesday: Tables

Series: tidytuesday

This started was one of my first Tidy Tuesday’s and my introduction to the gt and gtExtras packages. Part I: Tables in R. Note to self: figure out how to make this table smaller. As this was an early #TidyTuesday, I went for a simple analysis and found the 10 highest and 10 lowest ranked board games. I then added the year the board games came out and the average user ratings.