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Statisitical analysis in software development |
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Written by Martin Gladdish
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Friday, 24 October 2008 |
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I was struck, whilst reading Ben Goldacre's excellent book, Bad Science, by the sheer volume of data surrounding medicine. Whether it's disease rates in populations, probability of side effects per dosage, number of citizens with a particular condition, there is a huge volume of data to analyze and cross-reference.
The bit in particular that struck me is that these are very good datasets surrounding incredibly subjective measures; treatments, illnesses, symptoms and the like are all very woolly and open to wide interpretation, yet the medical community is still able to bring the full weight of statistics to bear (especially the bit about Cochrane meta-analysis of pre-existing studies that are able to spot statistically significant trends across studies that each of the individual studies were not able to do). |
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Last Updated ( Friday, 24 October 2008 )
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Written by Martin Gladdish
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Saturday, 15 March 2008 |
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I'm digesting my first attendance to a QCon conference. Overall it was a positive experience. I feel as though I know more now than I did at the start of the week, and am fired up to investigate a set of technologies that I wouldn't have otherwise pushed to the forefront of my mind. So, for the core reasons for my attendance, it's been a success. The bad news is that I've got mixed feelings on the success of the conference as a whole. |
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Last Updated ( Monday, 24 March 2008 )
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QCon 2008 session: Erich Gamma on Eclipse |
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Written by Martin Gladdish
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Saturday, 15 March 2008 |
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I was really looking forward to hearing Erich talk - he's one of those names that's been thereabouts in the Java space for a long time and has done a lot of widely appreciated work. I ended up disappointed though. It was interesting to hear about how the Eclipse development team was organised, but his presentation was vague and lacked focus. Where it picked up though was when he started talking about his latest project, Jazz. |
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