Articles by Ian Sparks

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Have you hit the Edit Check Wall?

Anyone who participates in endurance sports such as cycling or running will have heard of The Wall. It is the point at which the athlete exhausts their glycogen stores, resulting in a feeling of fatigue, the inability to go on.

As a Data Manager in a Study Builder role the …

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Better Rave Study Build Quality, Faster

To get the best out of Medidata Rave there are a set of Best Practices which should be followed when building studies. For example, Rave’s Clinical Views will not allow reserved words to be used as Field OIDs; Medidata publishes Rave Technical Note 22 which lists these reserved words …

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This week at TrialGrid (Feb 10, 2017)

Something that Andrew and I have discovered in the last few weeks is that people are interested in not just what we are doing but how we are doing it. Of course, we are keen to use our blog to promote our amazing product, TrialGrid, but every product feature has …