Saumya Sao

Global Health, Gender Sexuality and Feminist Studies

2018

Topics: Data+

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Big Data for Reproductive Health

Topics: Data+, Social Sciences

Year: 2018

Melanie Lai Wai (Statistics) and Saumya Sao (Global Health, Gender Studies) spent ten weeks developing a platform which enables users to understand factors that influence contraceptive use and discontinuation. Their work combined data from the Demographic and Health Surveys contraceptive calendar with open data about reproductive health and social indicators from the World...