Data science event scope

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Data science event scope #2

Open wbryant opened 2 years ago

wbryant commented 2 years ago

Mentioned here, number 7 - what would the specific purpose of this be? Data engineering is very important as a prerequisite for "data science" and there is a lot of space for identifying and addressing common problems in that space.

On the other hand, if the event could generate fundable ideas to drive data science (and consequently the underlying data/analytics infrastructure) then that would be great!

ChrisBeeley commented 2 years ago

This point needs a lot more thought and community engagement but IMO the community needs to get out and about and find and solve problems for people who

a) are completely non-technical b) are analytical but not code-first (Excel users, e.g.) c) may use R or Python but are not currently being heard in our community

Your point about data engineering is a good one- if you could describe some common problems in data engineering that would be really helpful, thanks

wbryant commented 2 years ago

A few internal data engineering challenges (from a hospital analyst's/DE's point-of-view):

Internal data findability and accessibility,
Programmatic interfaces to data (SQL/API),
Harmonisation and consistent data models,
Setting up research/analytics infrastructure (essentially access to cloud/VM resources),

When thinking about data/model/app sharing the following are challenges (overlap with the above):

Determining and transforming to consistent data models (even OMOP/FHIR are not perfectly interoperable),
Secure/gocernance compliant inter-organisation sharing,
Supporting inter-organisation infrastructure - TREs/federated learning platforms.

Happy to expand on this to contribute to the vision. Or I guess as a blog post. I should emphasize that this is very much from a team working inside a Trust with (at least initially) a primarily research focus.

ChrisBeeley commented 2 years ago

I have broken the link in the original post, please note that the correct link is now https://nhs-r-community.github.io/nhs-r_vision/docs/background/#what-can-the-nhs-r-community-do-to-support-the-system

ChrisBeeley commented 2 years ago

If you would like to contribute to this issue please make a PR here https://github.com/nhs-r-community/nhs-r_vision/blob/main/content/docs/event/_index.md