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What do you do with Data Science?

I develop relatively simple probability models for pressing societal/policy problems. This sometimes requires models for how the available data were generated. Examples include estimating HIV incidence among drug injectors from the prevalence of HIV in needles, casualties from suicide bombings (and potential benefits from sensor detection) based on the underlying "physics" of such attacks, casualties in bioterror attacks (and how to prepare and respond), the number of undocumented immigrants in the United States, the number of SARS-CoV-2 infections averted via repeat testing, and the incidence of coronavirus from viral RNA concentrations in wastewater.

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