Statistical Graphics Mashups for Analysis, Review and Reporting

Presented: October 2nd, 2007

Speaker: Michael O'Connell, Insightful Corporation

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In this presentation we describe new Insightful Graphics and Review software solutions that enable specification and repurposing of graphics throughout the clinical development process. In particular we discuss S-PLUS statistical graphics for clinical review and study reporting, layered on a data-driven graph taxonomy, and with graphics style elements that can be readily specified, edited and repurposed.  

Insightful Clinical Graphics and Clinical Review utilize modern Web 2.0 architectures and concepts such as mashups. This enables end-users to create their own graph patterns or clinical review templates from an inbuilt palette of clinical graph types, and to share these for re-use on different data across a wide variety of functional areas. We illustrate this concept via analogy with web video mashups from YouTube, featuring classic choreography with modern beats, dialog and graffiti.

The graph palette comprises a broad set of clinically-relevant displays. These utilize statistical graphics principles such as those originally espoused by Tukey (1977) and Tufte (1983); by Cleveland (1993) with the advent of TrellisTM graphics; and more recently through S-PLUS interactive GraphletsTM and GOM-graphics, developed by Insightful. We illustrate the software approach with a set of S-PLUS® graphics for design, review and reporting of a clinical trial data across multiple functional areas.

At the end of the presentation, we will briefly review the upcoming Insightful User Conference including speakers, seminars, posters and awards; as well as participant community information for maximizing benefits in attending the Conference in Atlantic City NJ, October 10-12.

References:

• Cleveland, W. (1993): Visualizing Data. Hobart Press, Summit NJ.
• O’Connell, M. (2006). Statistical graphics for design and analysis of clinical development studies. Insightful webcast. http://www.insightful.com/news_events/events.asp
• Tufte, E. R. (1983). The Visual Display of Information, Graphics Press, Cheshire CT.
• Tukey, J. W. (1977). Exploratory Data Analysis. Addison-Wesley, Reading MA.

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