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UofSC BDHSC wins NIH Award to Launch R25 Big Data Fellowship Program
September 14, 2021 | Erin Bluvas, bluvase@sc.eduThe National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases has awarded $1.75 million to the UofSC Big Data Health Science Center to train junior faculty to conduct infectious disease research using vast amounts of data....
AIDS Supplement: Harnessing Big Data to Halt HIV
BDHSC MPIs Dr. Xiaoming Li and Dr. Bankole Olatosi served as supplement editors for the AIDS special issue "Harnessing Big Data to Halt HIV" (AIDS 2021, Volume 35 Supplement 1) released in May 2021. The issue can be accessed here,...
New App: Origin-Destination-Time Flow Explorer Tutorial Now Available
The ODT Flow Explorer is an interactive geospatial web portal that lets you extract, query, and visualize human mobility and worldwide population flows using billions of geotagged Tweets and Safe Graph mobility data. At the core of the explorer is an origin...
Second Annual Big Data Health Science Conference Held Virtually February 5-6, 2021
The Big Data Health Science Conference is a signature annual event of the UofSC Big Data Health Science Center (BDHSC). The second annual Big Data Health Science Conference was held virtually February 5-6, 2021. The theme of the conference, “Unlocking the Power of Big...
2020 BDHSC Pilot Project Showcase Recording now Available
The video recordings of our seminar “BDHSC Pilot Project Showcase” is now available for viewing and downloading. The January seminar featured the work of Dr. Whitney Zahnd, Dr. John Brooks, and Dr. Jiajia Zhang, who are three of twelve recipients of the 2020 BDHSC...
2021 Big Data Health Science Student Case Competition Winners Announced!
A team from Georgia Institute of Technology won the $3,000 first place prize in the 2021 Big Data Health Science Virtual Student Case Competition that focused on solving inappropriate hospitalizations using a data analytics approach. As part of the University of South...
Inaugural Health GIS Scholars Announced — Congratulations to Doctoral Students Kelsey Day and Qian Huang
We are pleased to announce the BDHSC Geospatial Core has selected the recipients of its inaugural Health GIS Scholars Program. The Program is intended to enhance students' research and professional development in the area of GIS and health research, cultivate...
2021 BDHSC Pilot Project RFP Now Available
University of South Carolina Big Data Health Science Center (BDHSC) is seeking proposals for the conduct and uptake of pilot research projects focusing on the Big Data analytics in addressing critical issues related to health behavior, healthcare, and population...
Big Data Health Science Virtual Student Case Competition 2021
The 2nd Annual Big Data Health Science Case Competition will be held virtually between January 29– 31, 2021 before the University of South Carolina’s National Big Data Health Science Conference, scheduled for February 5– 6, 2021. Last year’s winner was Duke...
Registration now Open for 2021 Virtual Big Data Health Science Conference
We are pleased to announce that registration for the 2021 Big Data Health Science Conference is now open! This two day event will feature keynote and panel speakers from diverse areas of the health sciences, government and academia, and will offer various breakout...