About
I create content to help people learn about data and AI. My work includes:
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What are the best ways to work with other data viz pros and stakeholders for varied audiences?
When thinking about the purpose of your visualization, it's worth understanding whether you are creating exploratory visualizations or explanatory visualizations. Exploratory visualizations are designed to show insights that lead to further questions. They are typically quick and dirty, and created near the start of a data project. Explanatory visualizations are designed to lead to answers or to help you make decisions. They are typically more polished, and created near the end of a data project.
Activity
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Had a blast today at DAFTIC! Looking forward to walking the exhibit floor tomorrow to see the latest capabilities our industry partners are…
Had a blast today at DAFTIC! Looking forward to walking the exhibit floor tomorrow to see the latest capabilities our industry partners are…
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I’m pleased to announce that I’ll be delivering a talk on the importance of data literacy in today’s corporate environment. In large organizations…
I’m pleased to announce that I’ll be delivering a talk on the importance of data literacy in today’s corporate environment. In large organizations…
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Tech moves fast enough that every company seems to need a digital transformation program all the time. Throw AI into the mix, and the game has…
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Experience
Education
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University of York
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Mix of mathematical modelling, statistics and programming, applied to environmental problems.
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Activities and Societies: President of the film-making society.
Licenses & Certifications
Volunteer Experience
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Youth worker
VSO
- 7 months
Economic Empowerment
I took part in the World Youth Programme: 3 months volunteering in Kettering, UK and then 3 months volunteering in Kegalle, Sri Lanka.
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Workshop leader
The Money Charity
- 1 year 9 months
Education
I ran workshops in secondary schools teaching children about debt and money management.
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Founder/Organiser
DohaR: The Doha R User Group
- Present 8 years 5 months
Science and Technology
A user group for R, the statistical programming language, based in Doha.
http://www.meetup.com/doha-rug
Publications
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multipanelfigure: Simple Assembly of Multiple Plots and Images into a Compound Figure
Journal of Statistical Software
In scholarly publications, multiple graphical elements such as plots or raster images are traditionally combined into a single compound figure using panels arranged in a grid. Package multipanelfigure is a GPL-3 licensed R package that eases assembly of such compound figures, allowing for straightforward integration of R specific plots using base graphics, lattice and ggplot2 plots, as well as grid grobs in general. Also provided are facilities to incorporate R external graphical output stored…
In scholarly publications, multiple graphical elements such as plots or raster images are traditionally combined into a single compound figure using panels arranged in a grid. Package multipanelfigure is a GPL-3 licensed R package that eases assembly of such compound figures, allowing for straightforward integration of R specific plots using base graphics, lattice and ggplot2 plots, as well as grid grobs in general. Also provided are facilities to incorporate R external graphical output stored as SVG, PNG, JPEG, or TIFF formatted files.
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flippant–An R package for the automated analysis of fluorescence-based scramblase assays
BMC Bioinformatics
“flippant” allows for quick, reproducible data analysis of scramblase activity assays and provides a platform for review, dissemination and extension of the strategies it employs.
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Connecting genetic risk to disease end points through the human blood plasma proteome
Nature Communications
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) with intermediate phenotypes, like changes in metabolite and protein levels, provide functional evidence to map disease associations and translate them into clinical applications. However, although hundreds of genetic variants have been associated with complex disorders, the underlying molecular pathways often remain elusive. Associations with intermediate traits are key in establishing functional links between GWAS-identified risk-variants and disease end…
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) with intermediate phenotypes, like changes in metabolite and protein levels, provide functional evidence to map disease associations and translate them into clinical applications. However, although hundreds of genetic variants have been associated with complex disorders, the underlying molecular pathways often remain elusive. Associations with intermediate traits are key in establishing functional links between GWAS-identified risk-variants and disease end points. Here we describe a GWAS using a highly multiplexed aptamer-based affinity proteomics platform. We quantify 539 associations between protein levels and gene variants (pQTLs) in a German cohort and replicate over half of them in an Arab and Asian cohort. Fifty-five of the replicated pQTLs are located in trans. Our associations overlap with 57 genetic risk loci for 42 unique disease end points. We integrate this information into a genome-proteome network and provide an interactive web-tool for interrogations. Our results provide a basis for novel approaches to pharmaceutical and diagnostic applications.
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readat: An R package for reading and working with SomaLogic ADAT files
BMC Bioinformatics
Paper accompanying my R package for importing and working with SomaLogic ADAT files.
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Comprehensive transcriptomic and proteomic characterization of human mesenchymal stem cells reveals source specific cellular markers
Nature Scientific Reports
A mixed proteomics and transcripomics analysis of mesenchymal stem cells.
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Comparison of urinary thallium levels in non-occupationally exposed people and workers
Int Arch Occup Environ Health
Comparing urinary thallium levels in people working with thallium vs. background levels.
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PopGen: A virtual human population generator
Toxicology
Paper to accompany PopGen, a web app that genereates virtual human populations, for use in PBPK modelling.
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Learning R: A Step by Step Function Guide to Data Analysis
O'Reilly
An introduction to the R programming language, covering the full data analysis workflow and a wide variety of R packages. 400 pages of statistical goodness.
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Bad Data Handbook
O'Reilly
I wrote the chapter entitled "Blood, sweat and urine". It combines ten pages of insight into data management in a scientific organisation with wee jokes.
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Beryllium in urine by ICP-MS: a comparison of low level exposed workers and unexposed persons
Occupational and Environmental Health
I did the stats analysis on this. The fun part was running mixed effects models on censored data.
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Creatinine adjustment of biological monitoring results
Occupational Medicine
I examined the distributions of creatinine levels in men and women. Mostly remarkable for the big (in biological monitoring terms) dataset.
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A workflow for global sensitivity analysis of PBPK models
Frontiers in Pharmacology: Predictive Toxicology
How to do sensitivity analysis for PBPK models. In which I invent the Lowry plot, for visualising the sensitivity of different parameters in a system of ODEs.
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Variability of biomarkers in volunteer studies: The biological component
Toxicological Letters
A simple analysis of variation between people in the uptake/elimination curves for a few chemicals.
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Trends in blood lead levels in UK workers, 1995–2007
Occupational and Environmental Medicine
Stats analysis of blood samples from people who work with lead. Features some MCMC modelling with WinBUGS and a load of number crunching with R.
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Large-scale variation in seasonal swimming patterns of plaice in the North Sea
Marine Ecology Progress Series
Stats analysis of swimming data from tagged plaice, based upon my masters degree thesis.
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