Program manager, WDR 2021 - Data for Better Lives @worldbank; Senior Data Scientist @worldbankdata. Technology, data geek & development. My views are my own.
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#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
➡️ bit.ly/11AprilWebinar
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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: wrld.bg/l7kM50LtCls
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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
🌐: wrld.bg/Iv3l50LlWzn
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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: wrld.bg/yOMb50L5LAF #PSPR
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📢 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: wrld.bg/94fw50L7fni
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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: datawithpurpose.org/ #UNGA
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Are you interested in how to harness the power of #data for #development, so that no one is left behind? Read our data stories: wdr2021.worldbank.org/ @worldbankdata
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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
data4sdgs.org/data-values-pr…
ALT Cover image: Reimagining data and power - a roadmap for putting values at the heart of data.
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Please help us find a Spanish speaking Data Assessor for ODIN 2022/23 Round: great opportunity to learn working in a fun team.
docs.google.com/document/d/1…
@infoCEPEI @Data4SDGs @ContactPARIS21 @D4Dnetwork @eclac_un @DGateway
2022 kicks off the 6th round of the Open Data Inventory. What’s new in this year’s assessment?
⚧️ #Genderdata will have a stronger focus in assessments.
🌍194 countries will be assessed
🏢 More collaborations with NSOs
Read more: buff.ly/3JOc95f
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🚨 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.
⬇️
understandingpatientdata.org…
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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. blogs.worldbank.org/developm… via @worldbank
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The @WorldBank's poverty and inequality data have a new home: The Poverty and Inequality Platform (PIP). PovcalNet is no longer being updated.
pip.worldbank.org/home
@tonyfujs @RACastanedaA @worldbankdata @WBG_Poverty
Want to learn more about #poverty and inequality in a country or across countries, regions, or the entire world? Check out the new @WorldBank Poverty and Inequality Platform, a simple yet comprehensive tool to access our estimates. @WBG_Poverty wrld.bg/y7j650IGWR3
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.@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
genderdata.worldbank.org/ind…
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The World Bank has released a brand new Gender Data Portal: genderdata.worldbank.org/
They’ve revamped the entire site and I found a lot of cool new features / changes. Five highlights 🧵
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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 github.com/CSSEGISandData/CO…
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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:
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This looks great: A GitHub resource that lists popular data cleaning, data viz and stats commands/procedures across different programming languages
lost-stats.github.io/
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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
eventfund.codeforscience.org…
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Great opportunity to learn more about the @wellcometrust Mental Health Data Prize launching in the Spring ⤵️
The Wellcome Data Prize will support a multi-disciplinary community of #MentalHealth researchers, data scientists and lived experience experts.
Find out more by joining our webinar on 15 December.
#DataForGood #WellcomeDataPrize
socialfinance.zoom.us/webina…
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Extraordinary and extremely important piece.
lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v43/n23/…
