PIE Workbench: No Code PPMI Data Analysis

Hi all,

Excited to share PIE Workbench with the Data Modality & Methodology Task Force and the MJFF community. It’s a desktop app that brings classical statistical analysis and state-of-the-art machine learning together under one roof, with no code required.

The goal is to give clinical researchers and data scientists working in PD a fast path from raw PPMI data to publishable results, without bouncing between tools or writing Python. In one place, you can:

  • Load and inspect PPMI data with automatic modality detection and missingness heatmaps
  • Run t-tests, ANOVA, chi-square, correlations, and survival analysis (Kaplan-Meier + log-rank)
  • Build end-to-end ML pipelines: target selection, feature selection, leakage controls, model comparison
  • Get interactive ROC curves, confusion matrices, and feature importance

Under the hood, PIE is now powered by endgame, my ML library, which means PIE inherits a serious model zoo, calibration, leakage-aware evaluation, and a consistent reporting layer for free, and improvements to endgame flow straight through to PIE.

Repo: GitHub - MJFF-ResearchCommunity/PIE-Workbench: A modern GUI for the Parkinson's Insight Engine (PIE) ecosystem — no-code analytics for PPMI data · GitHub

I’d love for folks to take it for a spin and send feedback: what works, what’s confusing, what’s missing. Issues on GitHub or via email are welcome.

What’s next:

  • Bringing imaging data into the supported modalities
  • Putting PIE to work inside an actual PD research study, end-to-end

Thanks,
Cameron

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