In this fifth episode, we discuss strategies for motivating junior faculty and discuss a review paper on visual analytics. Finally, in our training advice segment, we discuss the qualities and skills found in effective leaders. We also present several interesting news items and mention some upcoming conferences and deadlines.

Piece in The Guardian on end of Moore’s Law and the need for tighter code

Blog post from Science on Asimov’s 100th birthday

NIH CSR study on the distribution of review meeting attendance

Piece in Stat by Mandl and Kohane on Epic’s efforts to block third party apps

Apply for our position of Chair, Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Informatics at the University of Pennsylvania

Review paper by Cui on Visual Analytics in IEEE

HIMSS conference

AMIA conference

ISMB conference

AMIA Clinical Informatics conference

PSB conference