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From cosmos to corona – Times Higher Education (THE)
Data cleansing project for pandemic patients illustrates the side-benefits of astronomy research
If you had told Samuel Hinton six months ago that he would be spending half his working hours crunching corona data, he would probably have assumed you were talking about the plasma aura around some star.
Instead, the University of Queensland astrophysicist is leading a project to synthesise data on Covid-19 patients from 48 countries.
The skills that you get from astrophysics it turns out theyre fairly translatable, Dr Hinton said. In astrophysics we get raw, messy data that we cant use from a telescope. Wetake this data, homogenise it, process it
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