Explorations

 
 

September 25 2019

Earlier this week, I attended the first Penn conference on big data in population health sciences. This was my first conference where I got to attend all the talks, and it was gratifying. The organizers did a wonderful job on selecting a great breadth of topics to cover, from electronic databases and biobanks to digital and mobile health. I learned so much! Some of these topics, according to my …

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September 20 2019

Penn Genetics recently held a wonderful retreat at Bear Creek Moutain resort. I enjoyed the many wonderful scientific talks at the retreat, but I was most moved by Arjun Raj’s call to action: blog. ⊕ At the retreat, Arjun also delivered a great talk on How to give a talk. I have always wanted to start a blog since graduate school when I read Daniel Lakens’ post on why blog posts may have …

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