Program manager, WDR 2021 - Data for Better Lives @worldbank; Senior Data Scientist @worldbankdata. Technology, data geek & development. My views are my own.
#WorldHealthDay will mark 1⃣ year since we launched the seminal #HealthDataPrinciples that brought a human rights & equity lens to the use of data.
To mark the occasion, we're holding a webinar on #HealthDataGovernance. Join us!
📅 11 Apr 3 PM CET
➡️ https://t.co/vXSeLTJ2pc
Digital health solutions and health data can help improve lives.
Join @WorldBank#WDR2021 webinar series to learn how improving health data governance can help countries recover and achieve green, resilient and inclusive growth.
Register now: https://t.co/6SQdGjLjs9
Rapid digitization will create more #data. How these data are governed will impact the longer-term goals of building resilient #HealthSystems for all of society.
Join us for a meaningful #WDR2021 discussion:
🗓️: Monday, Oct 31, 2022
⏰: 8-9:30 am ET
🌐: https://t.co/hVgXAohFGN
The world sees the biggest setback to poverty reduction in decades. About 720 million people subsisted on less than $2.15 a day by the end of 2020. @WorldBank’s latest Poverty & Shared Prosperity Report explores what it will take to correct course: https://t.co/mlVA8RoB18 #PSPR
📢 NEW JOURNAL ARTICLE! 📢
Why do we need an international data governance framework?
Find out in this piece, co-authored by @worldbankdata Director @FuHaishan & Program Manager @malarv in the special issue of the Statistical Journal of the @IAOS_Stat: https://t.co/rCFb8CuZWc
Addressing urgent crises with #data-driven solutions will take all of us working together. I agree with #Botswana President @OfficialMasisi that leadership is the key ingredient to enable data-driven dev. transformations. More from our discussion: https://t.co/6APay76q0o #UNGA
Are you interested in how to harness the power of #data for #development, so that no one is left behind? Read our data stories: https://t.co/67VgnGIrYO @worldbankdata
Coming to the end of my first week @ConnectedByData I’ve been reading the new paper #DataValues@data4sdgs white paper “Reimagining Data and Power: A roadmap for putting values at the heart of data” & exploring some of the issues it raises
https://t.co/dHULwHGOf1
🚨 Today we’ve published new research that explores Black & South Asian people’s views, experiences, concerns & hopes about the use of patient data.
The report by @CVR_Insights includes their 5 recommendations for healthcare policy & practice.
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https://t.co/M5JTQvDuBn
What a lot of papers! Nice to see the 1967 paper, with its careful discussion of causal inference, alongside its handmade graphs and low-tech regressions. Interesting to see the change over time in research topics and country focus. https://t.co/RaicYiUZqa via @worldbank
The @WorldBank's poverty and inequality data have a new home: The Poverty and Inequality Platform (PIP). PovcalNet is no longer being updated.
https://t.co/FhFIyBFvAO
@tonyfujs @RACastanedaA@worldbankdata@WBG_Poverty
.@WorldBank has a new website on gender data: laws, attitudes, employment & politics!
Superb insights into the Great Gender Divergence!
Is there equal access to divorce?
What’s the mean age of marriage?
Percentage of women in ministerial posts?
& more
https://t.co/THyVdwpSeL
The World Bank has released a brand new Gender Data Portal: https://t.co/YBlUFtsYgW
They’ve revamped the entire site and I found a lot of cool new features / changes. Five highlights 🧵
If you want to support this work and get involved – or you just want to see how this is organized – all their efforts are coordinated on GitHub (entirely in the public) here https://t.co/RbNDVufy8S
Early career years are painful.
You feel like an idiot 98% of the time - lost, confused and insecure.
I wish I had a cheat sheet of principles for my first job.
So I put one together.
Here are 20 things about building a career I wish I knew sooner:
This looks great: A GitHub resource that lists popular data cleaning, data viz and stats commands/procedures across different programming languages
https://t.co/39S0Vyvjvq
Involved in an open science/data community? Want to run an event but don't have the cash to do it justice?
Check out @codeforsociety's Event Fund, focused on diverse participation in data science!
🌍Can be based anywhere
💸Up to $20k
⏰ Closes 18th Jan
https://t.co/IUW9NRDajF