Health Data Science Student Blog

Statistics means never having to say you’re certain

Health Data Science

Sandy reflects on her journey in statistics and the descriptive, predictive, and causal aims of data science

Using machine learning to promote healthier diets in Australia

Health Data Science

Prediction

k-nearest neighbours

Tazman discusses his work using a k-nearest neighbors algorithm to predict fiber content from nutrition information labels.

Developing CHEMIWATCH: A Dissertation Journey

Health Data Science

Large Language Models (LLMs)

Prompt Engineering

Emmanuel discusses real-time surveillance of chemical incidents using large language models

Emmanuel Mnatzaganian

Meet the new cohort!

Health Data Science

New cohort

Meet some of the amazing diverse students in our largest ever Health Data Science cohort!

New cohort starters

Advent of Code

Health Data Science

Advent of Code

Sean discusses the popular and festive-themed annual coding challenge Advent of Code

What If: Using Data Storytelling to Illustrate Health Inequality in England

Health Data Science

Data Visualisation

Scrollytelling

Health Inequality

Owen discusses how he combined story-telling and interactive data visualisation to reveal the cascading effects of socio-economic factors on health outcomes

Applying literate programming techniques in the workplace

Health Data Science

Literate Programming

Calum discusses the power of literate programming to communicate with clincal collaborators

Calum Nicholson

Medical students living the Clinical AI dream

Health Data Science

Clinical AI

Liam and Elisabeth discuss their experience studying on the Clinical AI stream

Liam Dettmann Hughes and Elisabeth Abhayaratna

CBDRH Datathon: a taste of a (real) synthetic dataset

Health Data Science

datathon

synthetic data

HIV

Ivy discusses her experience at the first CBDRH Health Data Science datathon

Ivy Cerelia Valerie

Bridging the chasm of expectations and reality with real-world projects

Health Data Science

electronic medical records

publishing research

Danielle discusses her work at the interface of data science and clinical practice.

Danielle Ritz Shala

Studying Health Data Science as a junior doctor

Health Data Science

work-life balance

publishing research

Lucinda discusses her experience completing the HDS Masters Program while working as a junior doctor

Balancing life and study

Health Data Science

work-life balance

Jason discusses successfully navigating the Health Data Science Masters while balancing work, family and other life committments

Winning the SAS Cortex Analytics Simulation Challenge

Health Data Science

SAS

Cortex

Manny discusses winning the SAS Cortex Analytics Simulation 5 Day Challenge