On the Brink: At the Intersection of Data & Health

On the Brink addresses topics related to data, analytics, and visualizations on personal health and public health research. This column explores current practices in the health arena and how both the data and mathematical sciences have an impact. (The opinions and views represented here are the author’s own and do not reflect any group for which the author has an association.)

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Jason S. Brinkley, PhD, MS, MA is a Senior Researcher and Biostatistician at Abt Associates Inc. where he works on a wide variety of data for health services, policy, and disparities research. He maintains a research affiliation with the North Carolina Agromedicine Institute and serves on the executive committee for the NC Chapter of the American Statistical Association and the Southeast SAS Users Group. Follow him on Twitter. [Full Bio]

Read all columns in this series:

• Halloween by the Numbers 2019
• We R-Naught Ready for an Epidemic
• How Do Machines Learn? Part 3: They Recover
• How Do Machines Learn? Part 2: They Fight
• How Do Machines Learn? Part 1: They Learn
• Taste Testing Generic Drugs
• Halloween by the Numbers
• What Kills Kids?
• The Golden Age of Health Research Funding
• Does Living on a Prayer Work?
• The Opioid Data Crisis
• Income Lost from Snow Days*
• What the #$@&*! Is Blockchain?
• Opportunistic Research Opportunities
• Text Mining UFO Data: Little Green Aliens or Santa’s Elves?
• Should You Know Your Doctor’s Home Address?
• The Population Bullet
• The Unknown Unknowns of Missing Data
• Communicating Science–More Than Just Good Words?
• Counting Alabamas
• The Third World in Your Own Backyard
• The Unrealistic Gold Standard
• Does MACRA Signal the Beginning of the End for Medicare Claims Data?
• Think You Aren’t Extraordinary? Odds Are You’re Wrong
• Mapping by Words
• Are We Asking Too Much From Surveys?
• Making Better Comparisons
• What Kills Us?