Data science talk to focus on COVID-19 database available to Penn State faculty

Finding the right dataset can sometimes be a challenge in data science. A new initiative will provide Penn State researchers with access to a trove of COVID-19 data, updated frequently by health care systems around the United States. Penn State faculty can learn how to get access to the database and what data is included at a Data Science Community talk at 1 p.m. on Thursday, April 15. Advance registration is required.

The National COVID Cohort Collaborative (N3C), funded by the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, is an initiative that seeks to put data into the hands of scientists who are skilled at manipulating or deriving insight from data sets. Penn State Clinical and Translational Science Institute spearheaded the University’s participation in the N3C initiative. As part of the initiative, which includes institution-level data usage agreements, Penn State faculty can get free access to the platform without seeking Institutional Review Board approval.