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If you’ve ever looked at a dataset and wondered, “Who’s missing?” you already understand why the DSxHE Data Diversity Theme exists . This is an 18-month partnership between Data Science for Health Equity (DSxHE) and Cancer Research UK (CRUK), focused on helping the health research ecosystem make progress on diversity in data, research design, and reporting. Why this matters When datasets are not representative, research can be less accurate, less useful, and less fair. Two st

Share your views and help us shape the priorities of the Data Diversity theme for the next year! The Turing Way Community, & Scriberia. (2024). Illustrations from The Turing Way: Shared under CC-BY 4.0 for reuse. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13882307 Health datasets can fail to fully represent the populations they aim to serve. When certain groups are missing or measured inconsistently, research findings may not generalise, and data-driven tools can perform less we

Recording of the launch of the Data Diversity Theme, a new initiative from Data Science for Health Equity (DSxHE) in partnership with Cancer Research UK. Don't want to miss out on any future Data Diversity theme activities? Stay up to date by joining the #theme-data-diversity channel on our Slack workspace .

We recently hosted a couple of virtual drop-in sessions to launch our latest DSxHE Theme on Data Diversity . These sessions served as both an introduction to the new theme and a starting point for an important conversation about diversity in biomedical datasets. The event featured interactive activities and thought-provoking discussions designed to spark engagement and reflection ( check out this blog post for more on that ). We also recorded a special segment with Brieuc Leh

Recently, we hosted a virtual Drop-in session for our new DSxHE Theme - Data Diversity . The purpose of the session was both to introduce...

by Brieuc Lehmann “Building a world where data improves everyone’s health” Those are the words you read every time you visit DSxHE’s...