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Interactive Explainers

Walkthroughs you can play

Companion walkthroughs for the Clinical SP Bootcamp: animated, step-by-step schematics of the whole clinical data journey. Each page is self-contained (no external scripts or styles), works on a phone, respects reduced motion, and degrades to a fully readable final state without JavaScript. Keyboard: Space / → / ← / R.

2026-09-01 · 8 scenes · interactive

From Raw Data to TLF: The Clinical Data Journey

How a messy EDC extract becomes a submission package — eight animated scenes covering SDTM mapping, SUPPQUAL, ADSL, BDS baseline and windowing, TLF production and QC, and Define-XML. Play it like a lecture, one beat at a time.

Built from SDTM Domain Basics: The Model Every Clinical Programmer Must KnowSDTM AE Domain Mapping: A Worked Example from Raw EDC DataHow to Write an SDTM Mapping Specification (Walkthrough)ADSL Derivation Walkthrough: TRT01SDT, Flags, and the Merge TrapsADaM BDS Structure: Building ADLB and ADVS Step by StepFrom Mock Shell to RTF: How Clinical TLF Outputs Actually Ship

Open interactive walkthrough → Play / step / reset, or read it as a static schematic. Illustrative data only (fictional Study XYZ).

2026-09-02 · 7 scenes · interactive

The Contradictions Your Validator Can't See

Why domain-scoped SDTM validators structurally miss cross-domain RECIST contradictions — seven scenes from one impossible response to the graph, the SHACL shapes, the deterministic agent, and the 20/20 scoreboard with its fine print.

Built from The Contradictions Your Validator Can't See

Open interactive walkthrough → Play / step / reset, or read it as a static schematic. Illustrative data only (fictional Study XYZ).

2026-09-02 · 7 scenes · interactive

Thin MCP, Thick Skills: Five Layers for Clinical Programming Agents

ClinAgent's five-layer stack — thin stateless MCP tools, thick testable skills, compliance infrastructure — traced through one tool call, the STUDY-A validation bench, and the study-specific failure mode. Seven scenes.

Built from Thin MCP, Thick Skills: Five Layers for Clinical Programming Agents

Open interactive walkthrough → Play / step / reset, or read it as a static schematic. Illustrative data only (fictional Study XYZ).

More planned for flagship topics only — see the series roadmap. Honesty rule for every explainer: teaching schematics, illustrative values, never presented as measured study data.