Category: data science

Data Science and Machine Learning in Public Health: Promises and Challenges

a man holding two circles - one with a bar chart and one with a tablet with data coming out

In August 2019, two of us (CJP, DR) visited the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and gave a seminar on the promises and challenges of using “big data” for “precision public health” using the tools of “data science”. The seminar was well attended, with more than 200 participants. The audience was engaged, asking great Read More >

September 20, 2019 by Chirag J Patel and Danielle Rasooly, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, and Muin J. Khoury, Office of Public Health Genomics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia

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