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Sreng Sokh

Interests
  • Accounting information systems (AIS)
  • Consumer applications and technologies
  • Content management systems
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Activities Summary

This is known as the Alexion Challenge. We have to analysis and answer the following questions and then design a poster/graph to show present to the judges:

  1. Which rare diseases had the most trials?
  2. How does sampling effect trial success?
    Tip: Sampling typically includes variables such as: age, gender, locations (single location vs. multi-center), and enrollment size.
  3. Are trials with single funding sources such as (private or public only) vs. combined funding sources (multiple private companies or private and public) more successful?
  4. Can you identify future trends in clinical trials?
    Tip: Use articles, blogs, published studies, and other external sources to support your claims.
  5. For trials that went on to get drug approval, which intervention types such as drug, biologic, genetic, or behavioral had the shortest time to approval? Why?

What I Have Learned

IBIT Challenge helped me understand the process of how a data analysis does his/her work. Raw data given to us in classes are usually clean data and if we were to have to clean them, that would not take as much time. Usually it comes with some instructions. Here in the challenge, the raw data given to us with, somehow, unstructured and we had to first clean the data. That was the first time for me doing that, so I did not do that well – only after doing some research from the internet, my professors and class material (I used Tableau Prep), then I know how that was done. After cleaning the data, we had to do some more researches things related to Statistics – I attended several statistic classes to help me understand how to determine the results. Using that knowledge, I could then get results from that using MySQL and Excel I learned from the MIS2502 classes. After receiving enough data, started to develop the chart using the knowledge I learned from MIS2502 about how to create a meaningful chart to present our points. The process was very complicated and I was glad I attended the challenge to really understand how the process works.!!!

 

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