Data Science Training in Demography and Population Health

人口学和人口健康方面的数据科学培训

• 批准号: 10601165
• 负责人: Zack W Almquist
• 金额: $ 10.99万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-05-01 至 2025-04-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10601165
• 关键词: Data Science; Demography; Training; population health

Abstract The Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology (CSDE) at the University of Washington proposes a training program to create a new generation of population scientists and demographers equipped with skills to conduct data intensive research with advanced computational and statistical methods. Population science provides a crucial interdisciplinary framework for understanding the social, economic, political, and demographic dynamics affecting patterns of disease, mortality, fertility, and migration, but to extract signal from noise in the complex interplay of these processes the next generation requires a training in state-of-the-art methods. The program will prepare trainees to be leaders in problems involving a wide range of complex data, including data arising from multiple sources, data not intended for research (e.g. administrative data), dynamic or spatial data, network data, and “big data’’ sources. At the core of this program is a collaboration between CSDE, the eScience Institute (UW’s data science center), and the Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences (CSSS). These three institutes combine extensive expertise in demographic methods, data science, computer science and statistical methods and have a long, successful record of collaboration on research and training activities, including a BD2K track in Big Data for Demographic Research. Through this collaboration, trainees will take a series of coursework in the following areas: advanced statistical methods and machine learning, coding, databases, data visualization/communication, and data ethics. Trainees will also take part in team-mentoring processes, where they develop an apprenticeship relationship with a primary mentor but also learn directly from other faculty and trainees through collaborative projects and seminars. Mentors will come from all three centers, along with a variety of additional departments, selected to provide the most relevant expertise, including multiple faculty from the highly-ranked departments of Biostatistics, Statistics and Computer Science & Engineering. Further, trainees will get hands-on experience through rotations with on-campus and local partners. Each trainee will do a rotation in eScience’s Reproducibility and Open Science Special Interest Group (SIG), which develops resources that facilitate reproducible research. The training program will ensure trainees obtain the requisite theoretical and applied experience to take on whatever challenges and complexities the data revolution next provides. CSDE requests support for 5 pre-doctoral trainees per year, with total direct costs of $1,744,650.00, over 5 years.

摘要 华盛顿大学人口与生态学研究中心 提出了培养新一代人口科学家的培训计划， 人口统计学家具备进行数据密集型研究的技能， 计算和统计方法。人口科学提供了一个重要的跨学科 理解影响社会、经济、政治和人口动态的框架 疾病，死亡率，生育率和迁移的模式，但要从噪声中提取信号， 这些过程的复杂相互作用，下一代需要在最先进的培训 方法.该计划将培养学员成为领导者的问题，涉及广泛的， 复杂的数据，包括来自多个来源的数据，不用于研究的数据（例如， 管理数据）、动态或空间数据、网络数据和“大数据”源。为核心 该计划的一个合作项目是CSDE，电子科学研究所（UW的数据科学 统计与社会科学中心（Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences，CSSS）这三个机构 联合收割机在人口统计方法、数据科学、计算机科学和 统计方法，并在研究和培训方面有长期成功的合作记录 活动，包括人口研究大数据中的BD 2K轨道。通过这个 合作，学员将参加以下领域的一系列课程：高级统计 方法和机器学习，编码，数据库，数据可视化/通信和数据 伦理受训人员还将参加团队指导过程，在那里他们制定一个 与主要导师的学徒关系，但也直接向其他教师学习， 通过合作项目和研讨会培训学员。导师将来自所有三个中心， 沿着的还有各种其他部门，这些部门被挑选出来提供最相关的专业知识， 包括来自生物统计学、统计学和生物统计学等高级别系的多名教师 计算机科学与工程.此外，学员将通过以下方式获得实践经验： 与校园和当地合作伙伴进行轮换。每个学员将在eScience的 生殖科学和开放科学特别兴趣小组（SIG），开发资源， 促进可重复的研究。培训计划将确保学员获得必要的 理论和应用经验，以承担任何挑战和复杂的数据， 下一个革命是。CSDE要求每年支持5名博士前学员， 5年期间的直接费用为1，744，650.00美元。