Sign Up For The Future
By Careers Infinite
www.careersinfinite.com/about/sign-up-for-the-future
Sign Up For The FutureDec 08, 2020
Episode 5: Getting better with data
<em><strong>Xuedi Li</strong></em><em> is a data analyst in the Child Health Evaluative Sciences Program at The Hospital for Sick Children, with a background in pediatric epidemiology. She works with a group called TARGet Kids, the largest primary care research network for children in Canada. She is passionate about improving the health of Canadian children through the prevention of chronic disease and obesity in early childhood. Xuedi’s current research focuses on helping to assess the impact of COVID-19 on Canadian children’s physical and mental health.<br />
</em>
Episode 5 trailer: Getting better with data
<br />
<em><strong>Xuedi Li</strong></em><em> is a data analyst in the Child Health Evaluative Sciences Program at The Hospital for Sick Children, with a background in pediatric epidemiology. She works with a group called TARGet Kids, the largest primary care research network for children in Canada. She is passionate about improving the health of Canadian children through the prevention of chronic disease and obesity in early childhood. Xuedi’s current research focuses on helping to assess the impact of COVID-19 on Canadian children’s physical and mental health.<br />
</em>
Episode 4: Keeping track of COVID-19
At the start of the pandemic, Curtis created several web applications to track COVID-19 data and provide the public with detailed information about the cases, particularly within Canada and the United States. Initially, he dedicated 48 hours straight developing the platform from scratch and many countless hours since to source ways for people to have a greater awareness of this worldwide health issue. In the last nine months, with a lot of media coverage in Canada and Korea, his site has provided valuable, up-to-date information to millions of viewers.
For our listeners, definitely check out his web site, which can be found at www.covid-19canada.com.
Episode 4 trailer: Keeping track of COVID-19
Episode 3: Surveilling COVID-19
Episode 3 trailer: Surveilling COVID-19
In this episode, we are joined by Shrey Jain, an engineering science student from the University of Toronto, and the founder of FLATTEN, a COVID-19 syndromic surveillance tool. He will be discussing what FLATTEN is, the importance of data science in public health, and the skills you need to become a data scientist.
Episode 2: Convergence of data science and epidemiology
How do I train to become an epidemiologist? Why is data science important? How does data science and epidemiology help in fighting the COVID-19 pandemic?
Learn more about this field by listening to Dr. Raywat Deonandan-epidemiologist, science communicator, and associate professor from University of Ottawa.
Episode 2 trailer: Convergence of epidemiology and data science
Check out the new trailer!!!
In the upcoming episode on Dec 22, we will be joined by Dr. Raywat Deonandan, epidemiologist, science communicator and associate professor from University of Ottawa
He will be discussing what an epidemiologist does, what skills are needed to succeed in this field and how epidemiologists use data science.
Episode 1: Decoding Data Science
In today's episode, we are joined by Dr. Pascal Tyrrell-Data scientist, Director of data science with the Department of Medical Imaging and Associate professor with the Institute of Medical Science and the Department of Statistical Sciences at the University of Toronto. He will be discussing what is data science and what does a data scientist do? How do you train to become one and what skills do you need to be successful? You can find all of the information about this episode "Decoding Data Science" at http://www.careersinfinite.com/sign-up-for-the-future/episode-1/decoding-data-science or https://linktr.ee/careersinfinite --- Subscribe to our show to get the latest episode every week. If you like what you’ve been hearing on this podcast, leave us a comment tell us what you love about this episode!
Episode 1 trailer: Decoding Data Science
What does a data scientist do? How do you train to become a data scientist? What skills do you need to be a successful data scientist? Listen to Dr. Pascal Tyrrell decoding data science for you!