Articles Tagged in Health/Life Sciences

[A primer on bioinformatics](/content/articles/a-primer-on-bioinformatics/ "A primer on bioinformatics"/index.html)

Bioinformatics has many definitions, but is generally considered an applied discipline that uses statistics and computer science to study biological phenomena.

[Implementation of a decision tree analysis](/content/articles/implementation-of-a-decision-tree-analysis/ "Implementation of a decision tree analysis"/index.html)

Model fitting, hyperparameter tuning, and outcome prediction with tidymodels

[An introduction to decision tree theory](/content/articles/an-introduction-to-decision-tree-theory/ "An introduction to decision tree theory"/index.html)

The first of a three-part series exploring the theory and implementation of decision tree models

[Visualizing US FDA adverse drug events](/content/articles/visualizing-us-fda-adverse-drug-events/ "Visualizing US FDA adverse drug events "/index.html)

Leveraging R Shiny to create a dashboard presenting a brief report for adverse drug events in USA

[Welcome to our new BIOS² intern, Jake Lawlor](/content/articles/welcome-jake/ "Welcome to our new BIOS² intern, Jake Lawlor"/index.html)

Jake is joining us this fall as a data science intern

[Open source bioinformatics tools](/content/articles/open-source-bioinformatics-tools/ "Open source bioinformatics tools"/index.html)

A brief overview of tools for working with biological data

[Social epidemiology and open source data](/content/articles/social-epidemiology-and-open-source-data/ "Social epidemiology and open source data"/index.html)

My favourite open-source data sets relating to social issues surrounding health