Fraud in Clinical Trials
Clinical trial fraud involving fabricated patients is a well-documented problem in research integrity. Statistical methods, including data visualisation, can be a first line of detection, flagging sites for deeper investigation. A simulated dataset is provided for a randomised, controlled multi-centre study studying an active treatment versus placebo in blood pressure reduction. One site contains data that is fraudulent.
Explore the data using data visualisation and discover which site contains fabricated data
Use one or more data visualisations to provide convincing evidence to influence the study team to conduct further investigation
A description of the challenge can also be found here.
A recording of the session can be found here.
See the different reports created from:
For attribution, please cite this work as
SIG (2026, June 10). VIS-SIG Blog: Wonderful Wednesday June 2026 (75). Retrieved from https://graphicsprinciples.github.io/posts/2026-06-10-wonderful-wednesday-june-2026/
BibTeX citation
@misc{sig2026wonderful,
author = {SIG, PSI VIS},
title = {VIS-SIG Blog: Wonderful Wednesday June 2026 (75)},
url = {https://graphicsprinciples.github.io/posts/2026-06-10-wonderful-wednesday-june-2026/},
year = {2026}
}