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In Silico Flurries: Computing a world of snow. Scientific American. 23 December 2017

# Nature Methods: Points of Significance

Points of Significance column in Nature Methods. (Launch of Points of Significance)
1 | Altman, N. & Krzywinski, M. (2018) Points of significance: Curse(s) of dimensionality Nature Methods 15:299–400.
2 | Bzdok, D., Krzywinski, M. & Altman, N. (2018) Points of significance: Statistics vs machine learning. Nature Methods 15:233–234.
3 | Bzdok, D., Krzywinski, M. & Altman, N. (2018) Points of significance: Machine learning: supervised methods. Nature Methods 15:5–6.
4 | Bzdok, D., Krzywinski, M. & Altman, N. (2017) Points of significance: Machine learning: a primer. Nature Methods 14:1119–1120.
5 | Altman, N. & Krzywinski, M. (2017) Points of significance: Ensemble methods: Bagging and random forests. Nature Methods 14:933–934.
6 | Krzywinski, M. & Altman, N. (2017) Points of significance: Classification and regression trees. Nature Methods 14:757–758.
7 | Lever, J., Krzywinski, M. & Altman, N. (2017) Points of significance: Principal component analysis. Nature Methods 14:641–642.
8 | Altman, N. & Krzywinski, M. (2017) Points of significance: Clustering. Nature Methods 14:545–546.
9 | Altman, N. & Krzywinski, M. (2017) Points of significance: Tabular data. Nature Methods 14:329–330.
10 | Altman, N. & Krzywinski, M. (2017) Points of significance: Interpreting P values. Nature Methods 14:213–214.
11 | Altman, N. & Krzywinski, M. (2017) Points of significance: P values and the search for significance. Nature Methods 14:3–4.
12 | Lever, J., Krzywinski, M. & Altman, N. (2016) Points of significance: Regularization. Nature Methods 13:803–804.
13 | Lever, J., Krzywinski, M. & Altman, N. (2016) Points of significance: Model selection and overfitting. Nature Methods 13:703–704.
14 | Lever, J., Krzywinski, M. & Altman, N. (2016) Points of significance: Classifier evaluation. Nature Methods 13:603–604.
15 | Lever, J., Krzywinski, M. & Altman, N. (2016) Points of significance: Logistic regression. Nature Methods 13:541–542.
16 | Altman, N. & Krzywinski, M. (2016) Points of significance: Regression diagnostics. Nature Methods 13:385–386.
17 | Altman, N. & Krzywinski, M. (2016) Points of significance: Analyzing outliers: Influential or nuisance. Nature Methods 13:281–282.
18 | Krzywinski, M. & Altman, N. (2015) Points of significance: Multiple linear regression. Nature Methods 12:1103–1104.
19 | Altman, N. & Krzywinski, M. (2015) Points of significance: Simple linear regression. Nature Methods 12:999–1000.
20 | Altman, N. & Krzywinski, M. (2015) Points of significance: Association, correlation and causation. Nature Methods 12:899–900.
21 | Puga, J.L, Krzywinski, M. & Altman, N. (2015) Points of significance: Bayesian networks. Nature Methods 12:799–800.
22 | Kulesa, A., Krzywinski, M., Blainey, P. & Altman, N. (2015) Points of significance: Sampling distributions and the bootstrap. Nature Methods 12:477–478.
23 | Puga, J.L, Krzywinski, M. & Altman, N. (2015) Points of significance: Bayesian statistics. Nature Methods 12:277–278.
24 | Puga, J.L, Krzywinski, M. & Altman, N. (2015) Points of significance: Bayes' theorem. Nature Methods 12:277–278.
25 | Altman, N. & Krzywinski, M. (2015) Points of significance: Split plot design. Nature Methods 12:165–166.
26 | Altman, N. & Krzywinski, M. (2015) Points of significance: Sources of variation. Nature Methods 12:5–6.
27 | Krzywinski, M., Altman, N. (2014) Points of significance: Two factor designs. Nature Methods 11:1187–1188.
28 | Krzywinski, M., Altman, N. & Blainey, P. (2014) Points of significance: Nested designs. Nature Methods 11:977–978.
29 | Blainey, P., Krzywinski, M. & Altman, N. (2014) Points of significance: Replication. Nature Methods 11:879–880.
30 | Krzywinski, M. & Altman, N. (2014) Points of significance: Analysis of variance (ANOVA) and blocking. Nature Methods 11:699–700.
31 | Krzywinski, M. & Altman, N. (2014) Points of significance: Designing comparative experiments. Nature Methods 11:597–598.
32 | Krzywinski, M. & Altman, N. (2014) Points of significance: Non-parametric tests. Nature Methods 11:467–468.
33 | Krzywinski, M. & Altman, N. (2014) Points of significance: Comparing samples — Part II — Multiple testing. Nature Methods 11:355–356.
34 | Krzywinski, M. & Altman, N. (2014) Points of significance: Comparing samples — Part I — t–tests. Nature Methods 11:215–216.
35 | Krzywinski, M. & Altman, N. (2014) Points of significance: Visualizing samples with box plots. Nature Methods 11:119–120.
36 | Krzywinski, M. & Altman, N. (2013) Points of significance: Power and sample size. Nature Methods 10:1139–1140.
37 | Krzywinski, M. & Altman, N. (2013) Points of significance: Significance, P values and t–tests. Nature Methods 10:1041–1042.
38 | Krzywinski, M. & Altman, N. (2013) Points of significance: Error bars. Nature Methods 10:921–922.
39 | Krzywinski, M. & Altman, N. (2013) Points of significance: Importance of being uncertain. Nature Methods 10:809–810.
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# Molecular Case Studies Cover

Fri 06-07-2018

The theme of the April issue of Molecular Case Studies is precision oncogenomics. We have three papers in the issue based on work done in our Personalized Oncogenomics Program (POG).

The covers of Molecular Case Studies typically show microscopy images, with some shown in a more abstract fashion. There's also the occasional Circos plot.

I've previously taken a more fine-art approach to cover design, such for those of Nature, Genome Research and Trends in Genetics. I've used microscopy images to create a cover for PNAS—the one that made biology look like astrophysics—and thought that this is kind of material I'd start with for the MCS cover.

Cover design for Apr 2018 issue of Molecular Case Studies. (details)

# Happy 2018 $\tau$ Day—Art for everyone

Wed 27-06-2018
You know what day it is. (details)

# Universe Superclusters and Voids

Mon 25-06-2018

A map of the nearby superclusters and voids in the Unvierse.

By "nearby" I mean within 6,000 million light-years.

The Universe — Superclustesr and Voids. The two supergalactic hemispheres showing Abell clusters, superclusters and voids within a distance of 6,000 million light-years from the Milky Way. (details)

# Datavis for your feet—the 178.75 lb socks

Sat 23-06-2018

In the past, I've been tangentially involved in fashion design. I've also been more directly involved in fashion photography.

It was now time to design my first ... pair of socks.

Some datavis for your feet: the 178.75 lb socks. (get some)

In collaboration with Flux Socks, the design features the colors and relative thicknesses of Rogue olympic weightlifting plates. The first four plates in the stack are the 55, 45, 35, and 25 competition plates. The top 4 plates are the 10, 5, 2.5 and 1.25 lb change plates.

The perceived weight of each sock is 178.75 lb and 357.5 lb for the pair.

The actual weight is much less.

# Genes Behind Psychiatric Disorders

Sun 24-06-2018

Find patterns behind gene expression and disease.

Expression, correlation and network module membership of 11,000+ genes and 5 psychiatric disorders in about 6" x 7" on a single page.

Design tip: Stay calm.

An analysis of dust reveals how the presence of men, women, dogs and cats affects the variety of bacteria in a household. Appears on Graphic Science page in December 2015 issue of Scientific American.

More of my American Scientific Graphic Science designs

Gandal M.J. et al. Shared Molecular Neuropathology Across Major Psychiatric Disorders Parallels Polygenic Overlap Science 359 693–697 (2018)

# Curse(s) of dimensionality

Tue 05-06-2018
There is such a thing as too much of a good thing.

We discuss the many ways in which analysis can be confounded when data has a large number of dimensions (variables). Collectively, these are called the "curses of dimensionality".

Nature Methods Points of Significance column: Curse(s) of dimensionality. (read)

Some of these are unintuitive, such as the fact that the volume of the hypersphere increases and then shrinks beyond about 7 dimensions, while the volume of the hypercube always increases. This means that high-dimensional space is "mostly corners" and the distance between points increases greatly with dimension. This has consequences on correlation and classification.

Altman, N. & Krzywinski, M. (2018) Points of significance: Curse(s) of dimensionality Nature Methods 15:399–400.

# Statistics vs Machine Learning

Tue 03-04-2018
We conclude our series on Machine Learning with a comparison of two approaches: classical statistical inference and machine learning. The boundary between them is subject to debate, but important generalizations can be made.

Inference creates a mathematical model of the datageneration process to formalize understanding or test a hypothesis about how the system behaves. Prediction aims at forecasting unobserved outcomes or future behavior. Typically we want to do both and know how biological processes work and what will happen next. Inference and ML are complementary in pointing us to biologically meaningful conclusions.

Nature Methods Points of Significance column: Statistics vs machine learning. (read)

Statistics asks us to choose a model that incorporates our knowledge of the system, and ML requires us to choose a predictive algorithm by relying on its empirical capabilities. Justification for an inference model typically rests on whether we feel it adequately captures the essence of the system. The choice of pattern-learning algorithms often depends on measures of past performance in similar scenarios.

Bzdok, D., Krzywinski, M. & Altman, N. (2018) Points of Significance: Statistics vs machine learning. Nature Methods 15:233–234.

Bzdok, D., Krzywinski, M. & Altman, N. (2017) Points of Significance: Machine learning: a primer. Nature Methods 14:1119–1120.

Bzdok, D., Krzywinski, M. & Altman, N. (2017) Points of Significance: Machine learning: supervised methods. Nature Methods 15:5–6.

# Happy 2018 $\pi$ Day—Boonies, burbs and boutiques of $\pi$

Wed 14-03-2018

Celebrate $\pi$ Day (March 14th) and go to brand new places. Together with Jake Lever, this year we shrink the world and play with road maps.

Streets are seamlessly streets from across the world. Finally, a halva shop on the same block!

A great 10 km run loop between Istanbul, Copenhagen, San Francisco and Dublin. Stop off for halva, smørrebrød, espresso and a Guinness on the way. (details)

Intriguing and personal patterns of urban development for each city appear in the Boonies, Burbs and Boutiques series.

In the Boonies, Burbs and Boutiques of $\pi$ we draw progressively denser patches using the digit sequence 159 to inform density. (details)

No color—just lines. Lines from Marrakesh, Prague, Istanbul, Nice and other destinations for the mind and the heart.

Roads from cities rearranged according to the digits of $\pi$. (details)

The art is featured in the Pi City on the Scientific American SA Visual blog.

Check out art from previous years: 2013 $\pi$ Day and 2014 $\pi$ Day, 2015 $\pi$ Day, 2016 $\pi$ Day and 2017 $\pi$ Day.