CBIIT Cancer Data Science Pulse Blog
A data science blog featuring news and updates from CBIIT.
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Career Confessions: A Health Information Manager’s Time in an NCI FellowshipAfter her fellowship with NCI, one health information manager learned it’s never too late to learn more about data science. Read about the five things she said are helping her in her career.
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Data as a Gift—A Common Theme from NCI’s First Office of Data Sharing SymposiumPatients play a pivotal role in cancer research by generously giving the “gift” of data. Dr. Jaime Guidry Auvil of NCI’s Office of Data Sharing explains what it means for everyone involved in cancer research—scientists, people with cancer, their families, and generations to come.
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NCI Listens: Your Feedback on Data Sharing Challenges and OpportunitiesWant to know what NCI learned from a recent RFI on data sharing processes? Explore insights and NCI’s future plans to support cancer data scientists!
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NCI Workshop Addresses Current Challenges in De-Identifying Medical ImagesNCI recently hosted a two-day workshop with more than 600 developers, researchers, and data scientists from the United States, Canada, and the European Union. Participants addressed some of the challenges of removing personal information from medical images.
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Former Fellow Shares NCI Experience with Geocoding and Patient PrivacyFind out what a previous fellow has to say about her experience with data science in an NCI fellowship, and how she applied what she learned to her cancer research career.
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Data Sharing Advocacy—A Cancer Survivor Advocates for Better Patient ExperienceMr. Steve Friedman of NCI’s Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences’ Surveillance Research Program shares how his survivorship of testicular cancer impacted his decision to pursue the cancer data science field.
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NCI Funding Helps AI Researchers Gain Global Insight on CancerMeet Drs. Ajay Aggarwal and Anant Madabhushi, two grantees funded by NCI’s Center for Global Health’s Affordable Cancer Technologies (ACTs) Program. These ACTs-supported grantees are using artificial intelligence (AI) to develop tools that can be used in a variety of conditions and health systems around the world.
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Semantics Series—A Deep Dive Into Common Data ElementsCommon Data Elements (CDEs) are a key component of NCI’s semantics infrastructure. CDEs allow us to assign meaning to data in a way that’s predictable, consistent, and persistent across time. CBIIT’s Ms. Denise Warzel and Dr. Gilberto Fragoso show how CDEs help researchers define, map, and use data more efficiently.
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Theranostics and AI—The Next Advance in Cancer Precision MedicineIn this blog, Dr. Baris Turkbey, senior clinician in NCI’s Molecular Imaging Branch, Center for Cancer Research, explores the field of theranostics. He describes how artificial intelligence and data are helping researchers “see” cancer in a new way, resulting in a more precise way of targeting cancer treatment.
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Trusting the Data—A Look at Data BiasDr. Vivian Ota Wang shares her perspectives on data bias and outlines ideas for making data more equitable, fair, and useful to the greatest number of people, all of which would benefit cancer research.
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Complete Your Research Project with Tips from a Cancer Data ScientistCBIIT’s Chief of the Clinical and Translational Research Informatics Branch gives advice on how to conduct a research project using data science and the value data science brings to supporting the cancer research community.
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Career Confessions: 5 Things a Research Fellow Learned in a Cancer Data Scientist LabWe spoke to an early-career cancer data scientist at NCI to get advice for anyone pursuing a career in data science. Hear the five things he’s discovered since receiving his doctorate, plus the experience he’s gained in the field.
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NCI’s National Cancer Plan and Data’s Critical RoleNCI’s recently released National Cancer Plan details eight strategic goals. Our NCI CBIIT leadership team offers insight into the new Plan, with particular emphasis on how data science and related technologies will support this work and serve as a catalyst for future cancer research at NCI.
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Using Cancer Data Science to Advance Your ResearchHow can data science support your cancer research? Explore this helpful quick start guide to find out! We’ll show you an overview of how data science enhances cancer research and how you can get started applying it to your work.
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Job Interview Questions for Cancer Data Scientists and How to Answer ThemLearn what one NCI hiring manager is looking for when interviewing a candidate for a cancer data scientist job. CBIIT’s own Dr. Daoud Meerzaman provides his input on what certain questions mean during the interview process.
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NCI Brings Cancer Data to LifeDid you ever wonder what goes into making data ready for analysis by researchers around the world? In this video blog, meet "Datum," a single speck of genomic data chronicling how NCI supports cancer research by bringing data to life.
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Apply for Grants to Support Novel and Standard Tools for Analyzing All of Us Program DataNIH and NCI are participating in two funding opportunities to support the All of Us Research Program’s Researcher Workbench.
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Federated Learning—A Solution for Democratizing Data for Cancer Research?Federated learning (FL) might well be the next paradigm shift in democratizing vast amounts of data from many data sources for use in cancer research. FL offers a decentralized, but collective, approach to using data to better understand cancer.
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Visualizing Data Using Circular Heatmaps and Biplots—Pro-Tips From NCI ResearchersWe’re continuing our blog series on data visualizations with a look at circular heatmaps and biplots. This blog features images and tips from Drs. Arashdeep Singh and Sridhar Hannehalli of NCI’s Center for Cancer Research.