| Open Forum: What is the true cost of open source? |
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The Open Source Technology in Clinical Data Analysis (OSTCDA) project was set up with the aim to create a manuscript on the integration of open-source software solutions for clinical data management, analysis and reporting. Questions we addressed during this Webinar: In addition to the GitHub Discussion, we are hosting a series of forums throughout the year. See the Working Group Events page for further details. |
| Presenter | Bio |
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| Mike Stackhouse, MIDS. Atorus ResearchMike Stackhouse, MIDS., Chief Innovation Officer at Atorus Research is a 2020 UC Berkeley School of Information Master of Information and Data Science (MIDS) program graduate, where he worked on projects involving computer vision, natural language processing, cluster computing, and deep learning. Mike and his team at Atorus are the authors of the R packages pharmaRTF and Tplyr, as well as contributing to the pharmaverse packages xportr, metacore, metatools, envsetup, and datasetjson. Previously, Mike was a Senior Manager of Statistical Programming at Covance, where he led U.S. innovation activities for the FSP department. Under his guidance, projects achieved data standardisation according to SDTM standards on upwards of 75 studies, including database integration and data warehousing. He also managed programming activities through a multiagency submission for multiple studies. In addition, he took on multiple automation projects and led innovation efforts, such as the development of a tool capable of dynamically locating programming independence violations and automatically detecting protocol deviations, as well as the creation of data pipelines around tracking systems for programming deliverables. Within industry, Mike sits on the council of Pharmaverse, as well as the board of the CDISC Open Source Alliance (COSA), and co-leads the PHUSE working group Data Visualisation and Open Source Technology. |
