Tag Archives: my research
Automated Quality Assurance for Mobile Data Collection
I’m excited to call your attention to a paper that my co-author Ben Birnbaum is presenting next week at the ACM DEV conference: Benjamin Birnbaum, Brian DeRenzi, Abraham D. Flaxman, and Neal Lesh, Automated Quality Assurance for Mobile Data Collection … Continue reading
Filed under global health
Flock of VA papers
I’m afraid that Healthy Algorithms will be pretty quiet in the next month, I’ve got some major other writing commitments to attend to, and I need to ration my keystrokes if I’m going to make the deadline. But here is … Continue reading
Filed under global health
Random Forest Verbal Autopsy Debut
I just got back from a very fun conference, which was the culmination of some very hard work, all on the Verbal Autopsy (which I’ve mentioned often here in the past). In the end, we managed to produce machine learning … Continue reading
Filed under TCS
World Malaria Report and MCMC
OMG I have got busy. I went to NIPS and the weekend disappeared and now it’s post-doc interview season again, already! So much to say, but I plan to pace myself. For this short post, an exciting announcement that my … Continue reading
Filed under global health, MCMC
Applied Approximate Counting: Malaria
My first first-authored global health paper came out today (I consider it my first “first-authored” paper ever, since the mathematicians I’ve worked with deviantly list authorship in alphabetical order regardless of seniority and contribution). It’s a bit of a mouthful … Continue reading
Filed under global health, MCMC
Child Mortality Paper
Check it out, my first published research in global health: Neonatal, postneonatal, childhood, and under-5 mortality for 187 countries, 1970—2010: a systematic analysis of progress towards Millennium Development Goal 4. I’m the ‘t’ in et al, and my contribution was … Continue reading
Filed under global health
Teleportation Measurements
I’m not attending WWW this week, but I am promoting a paper that I helped with, Tracking the random surfer: Empirically measured teleportation parameters in PageRank. My main contribution was connecting the people with the idea to the people with … Continue reading
Filed under statistics
Verbal Autopsy Challenge from AI-D
I was down in Palo Alto last week to attend the AAAI session on Artificial Intelligence for Development. The proceedings should be available online soon. I was there to connect with other theoretical computer science and find out how they … Continue reading
Filed under global health
A useful metaphor for explaining MCMC
I work in an interdisciplinary institute, and you should see the fun when mathematicians, statisticians, and physicists try to discuss models and methods for health metrics each using the dialect of their specific fields. And then throw doctors and epidemiologists … Continue reading
Health Care Reform, Accountability, Disparity
I got some good news for the weekend, an opinion piece that I wrote together with some of the other post-graduate fellows at IHME was published online as a Science e-letter. It is titled U.S. Health Care Reform: The Case … Continue reading
Filed under global health, science policy
