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Dr Samantha C Pendleton
PhD Clinical Informatics · Data Wrangler / Data Scientist · 
About me
- Data Wrangler / Data Scientist at the Big Data Instiute, University of Oxford.
- Completed my PhD (2018 - 2022) in Clinical Informatics, University of Birmingham.
- Previously studied at Aberystwyth University for my Masters in Data Science (2017-18) and undergraduate in Business IT (2014-17).
- Data Wrangling
- Machine Learning
- Dimensionality reduction
- Clustering
- Natural langauge processing (NLP)
- Vectorisation
- Ontologies
- Semantic similarity
- The Patient Voice and Patient Outcomes
- I have never broken a bone
- I enjoy pottery
- I have a fear of heights
Blogs
Blogs are randomly ordered
check out some archived blogs...
Recent blogs
OcIMIDo 18/06/2021
Ocular Immune-Mediated Inflammatory Diseases Ontology and the patient voice
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ResearcHersCode 12/02/2021
My take-over Tweets curated so they don't get lost
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Fashun 21/10/2022
Fun project looking into fashion trends
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Highlighted blogs
Weaving Webs 15/08/2019
Writing about my PhD for the public - submission to Max Perutz Science
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Masters Dissertation 02/10/2018
Acidobacteria is very interesting and I made my first Python package
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First Year PhD 23/07/2019
Summary of the first year of my PhD - started low but now happier
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BCS Lovelace Colloquim 06/04/2018
My first conference: amazing, inspiring, and would definitely recommend
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Academia projects
- Data Wrangler / Data Scientist at the Big Data Instiute, University of Oxford.
- Completed my PhD (2018 - 2022) in Clinical Informatics, University of Birmingham.
- Previously studied at Aberystwyth University for my Masters in Data Science (2017-18) and undergraduate in Business IT (2014-17).
- Data Wrangling
- Machine Learning
- Dimensionality reduction
- Clustering
- Natural langauge processing (NLP)
- Vectorisation
- Ontologies
- Semantic similarity
- The Patient Voice and Patient Outcomes
- I have never broken a bone
- I enjoy pottery
- I have a fear of heights
OcIMIDo 18/06/2021
Ocular Immune-Mediated Inflammatory Diseases Ontology and the patient voice readResearcHersCode 12/02/2021
My take-over Tweets curated so they don't get lost readFashun 21/10/2022
Fun project looking into fashion trends readWeaving Webs 15/08/2019
Writing about my PhD for the public - submission to Max Perutz Science readMasters Dissertation 02/10/2018
Acidobacteria is very interesting and I made my firstPython package
read
First Year PhD 23/07/2019
Summary of the first year of my PhD - started low but now happier readBCS Lovelace Colloquim 06/04/2018
My first conference: amazing, inspiring, and would definitely recommend readPatientINF embedding model derived from clinician and patient voice (PhD 2022)
COID the Combined Ontology for Inflammatory Diseases (PhD 2022)
OcIMIDo the Ocular Immune-Mediated Inflammatory Diseases Ontology enhanced with patient voice (PhD 2021)
Jabberwocky a Python toolkit for those nonsensical ontologies and NLP tasks (PhD 2020)
Colours Python CLI tools
Acidoseq a Python package for studying Acidobacteria sequences (Masters 2018)
Bioinformatics project an analysis of current software for Nanopore (Summer 2017)
Undergraduate dissertation creating a website (Undergraduate 2017)
Blogs specifically relating to the PhD:
OcIMIDo Jabberwocky ResearcHersCode take-over PhD applications My PhD for the general public First PhD year
Publications
Russ, Dominic, et al. "Evaluating the detection ability of a range of epistasis detection methods on simulated data for pure and impure epistatic models." Plos one 17.2 (2022): e0263390.
Slater, Luke T., et al. "Klarigi: Characteristic Explanations for Semantic Data." bioRxiv (2022): 2021-06.
Karwath, Andreas, et al. "Redefining β-blocker response in heart failure patients with sinus rhythm and atrial fibrillation: a machine learning cluster analysis." The Lancet 398.10309 (2021): 1427-1435.
Aziz, Furqan, et al. "Multimorbidity prediction using link prediction." Scientific Reports 11.1 (2021): 1-11.
Williams, John A., et al. "A causal web between chronotype and metabolic health traits." Genes 12.7 (2021): 1029.
Pendleton, Samantha C., et al. "Development and application of the ocular immune-mediated inflammatory diseases ontology enhanced with synonyms from online patient support forum conversation." Computers in biology and medicine 135 (2021): 104542.
Pendleton, Samantha C., and Georgios V. Gkoutos. "Jabberwocky: an ontology-aware toolkit for manipulating text." Journal of Open Source Software 5.51 (2020): 2168.