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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black">From:</span></b><span style="color:black"> Raphael Realina Brosula <brosular@stanford.edu><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Stanford Health + Data Science Event - Forward Request</span><span style="color:#212121">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#323130;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:white">I’m Raphael, a member of the planning team for Blueprint Datathon, a health-themed data science competition
taking place October 23-25 at Stanford! Our application is now open and we'd love for students from MIT to apply and participate.
</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#201F1E;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:white">Given your organization’s mission, the Blueprint planning team thought some of your members may be interested in applying!</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;background:white"> </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;background:white"><a href="http://blueprint.stanford.edu/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Blueprint
Datathon</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#201F1E;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:white"> is an annual weekend competition at Stanford, hosted by Stanford Health Innovations for Future
Technologies (</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;background:white"><a href="http://shift.stanford.edu/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">SHIFT</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#201F1E;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:white">).
We bring together students from diverse backgrounds to apply big data analytics to challenges in healthcare.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;background:white"> </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#201F1E;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:white">We encourage undergraduate and graduate students with interests in statistics, healthcare, computer science,
economics, mathematics, or business to participate. Participants will be provided with a few cases and corresponding data sets covering a health/biotech problem studied by industry and academia to discover meaningful insights. We expect participants to use
statistical analysis techniques and tools to explore the data provided, and use the insights to make recommendations and qualitative models for adoption by appropriate stakeholders.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;background:white"> </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#323130;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:white">Raphael Brosula</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;background:white"> </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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