It’s out of date at this point, but I plotted the Global Health Security Index against covid death rates back in November if you’d like to get a sense of the relationship: https://twitter.com/kforeman/status/1331035362676785152
The problem with this is that you simply cannot compare the covid death statistics coming out of a country in Africa with those reported by USA or Germany.
Even in India, where we do have excellent reporting in some states and cities, the vast majority of covid deaths are expected to go unreported or undetected.
I think a more valid chart would be to plot only countries with comparable per capita GDP, and comparable health indicators (life expectancy, infant mortality, etc.). That would confirm the implication that USA's GHSI rank of 1 was inaccurate.
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At the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) we do cutting-edge data science to help improve the world's health. We're a team of 400 data scientists, researchers, engineers, epidemiologists, physicians, and more working to help places like the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, NGOs, ministries of health around the world, and others make the best decisions about how to invest resources to maximize global health. Read more about why the Gates Foundation recently invested nearly $300M in us here: https://www.gatesfoundation.org/Media-Center/Press-Releases/...
For those interested in global health, we've tried to collate as much data as possible at http://ghdx.healthdata.org/ (disclosure: I'm the director of data science at IHME, which hosts this).
Note that most of this data is population level epidemiologic and administrative stuff, not the detailed biomedical measurements I see most people requesting - but I promise you there's some really interesting things that can be done with it nonetheless!
IHME is 250 person independent research institute affiliated with the University of Washington, primarily focused on global health research and statistics.
I'm looking for data scientists / researchers / devs / architects for a cool project we're working on that aims to simulate the health of the entire world. Experience with distributed computing a must, as this is a massively parallel task. We've also got openings for JS devs, DBAs, and more.
We've got a lot of fun toys to play with like a 20k core cluster and all the latest Spark gizmos, plus you get to work on projects that have proven impact on the world.
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Agreed. I would use latex for everything but I need to work with collaborators who are only used to writing in Word with track changes. Something that would allow me to write in latex then still share for editing with less tech savvy people would be wonderful.
I wonder how Nvidia building their own machines goes over with the many, many third party partners building similar rigs. On the Supercomputing 2014 showroom floor it seemed like half the booths were selling something like this and were covered in Nvidia branding.
This is a developers platform, in a rather inconvenient form factor for any sort of scale deployment. The partners honestly probably love it because it means they won't be hit with support requests because a driver's acting up, and will just be getting the sales to handle the finished product.
