Welcome to Wonderful Wednesday

Get involved and develop your data visualisation knowledge & skills.

Here's how it works:

  • Each month a new challenge will be provided, including access to the relevant dataset.
  • Download the data, and develop your own data visualisations.
  • Develop your graphics and code (using any programming language or tool) and submit your entry.
  • Attend the monthly webinar, to hear your submission discussed by our expert panel. Alternatively, please feel free to simply attend the webinars, view the submitted graphics and listen to the panel discussion.

We welcome suggestions for new challenges! Please feel free to submit your idea here or send us an e-mail.

Current Challenge: Platform trial designs

It is known that sometimes at the design stage of a clinical trial, simulations are conducted to better understand the operating characteristics of the design. Based on a simulated data set, the challenge is to visualise characteristics of the design to answer questions such as

  • How can we investigate the effectiveness of early stopping for futility?
  • What is the relationship between the quality of the surrogate endpoint and the average number of patients enrolled? Is there an interaction with futility stopping and treatment effect scenario?
  • How do FWER and FWER_BA differ from each other with respect to treatment effect scenario and maximum number of cohorts?
  • Can you find other interesting patterns in the data?
Dataset: Platform trial designsIntroduction of the challenge: Webinar 51 from May 8th 
Submission: Click here to submit or
send it via e-mail
Deadline: July 3rd
Next webinar: Click here to register Date: July 10th 

* NOTE to download a single data set as a csv file, click on the raw button and save the file. The following link describes the process in further detail

Upcoming Webinars

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Blog

Details of previous Wonderful Wednesdays can be found on our blog site. Each blog entry includes:
• Submitted visualisations
• A summary of the panel discussion
• Submitted code

 

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Upcoming Events

Joint PSI/EFSPI Visualisation SIG 'Wonderful Wednesday' Webinars

Our monthly webinar explores examples of innovative data visualisations relevant to our day to day work. Each month a new dataset is provided from a clinical trial or other relevant example, and participants are invited to submit a graphic that communicates interesting and relevant characteristics of the data.

PSI EIWG Webinar: Estimands framework in action, the Alzheimer's disease case

The webinar will show how the estimand framework was applied in a Phase 3 trial in Alzheimer's disease.

PSI Webinar: Development of Gene Therapies: Strategic, Scientific, Regulatory and Access Considerations

This webinar will cover the history of cell/gene therapy, major regulatory advances, the role of quantitative scientists in drug development of these novel therapeutics, and discuss opportunities for innovation and product advancement.

PSI Career Young Virtual Event (Q3 2024)

This networking event is aimed at statisticians that are new to the pharmaceutical industry who wish to meet colleagues from different companies and backgrounds.

PSI Introduction to Industry Training (ITIT) Course - 2024/2025

An introductory course giving an overview of the pharmaceutical industry and the drug development process as a whole, aimed at those with 1-3 years' experience. It comprises of six 2-day sessions covering a range of topics including Research and Development, Toxicology, Data Management and the Role of a CRO, Clinical Trials, Reimbursement, and Marketing.

PSI Training Course: Regulatory Guidelines for Statisticians

This 2-day course is designed to provide a comprehensive understanding of the regulatory guidelines affecting statisticians in the pharmaceutical industry, including the latest updates in the field. The course will cover key International Council for Harmonisation (ICH) guidelines and other key regional regulatory agency documents.

Joint PSI/EFSPI Causal Inference SIG Webinar: Opportunities in applying a causal inference framework during the analysis of an RCT

This webinar will discuss opportunities in applying causal inference methodology during the analysis of RCT data.

Joint PSI/EFSPI Pre-Clinical SIG Webinar: Virtual Control Groups in Toxicity Studies

Lea Vaas will present how replacement of concurrent control animals by Virtual Control Groups (VCGs) in systemic toxicity studies may help in contributing to the 3R's principle of animal experimentation: Reduce, Refine, Replace.

PSI Career Young Virtual Event (Q4 2024)

This networking event is aimed at statisticians that are new to the pharmaceutical industry who wish to meet colleagues from different companies and backgrounds.

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