Data scientist at Fred Hutch wrangles machine learning tools to help cancer-fighting colleagues Produced by Advertising Publications

According to a company spokesperson, Silgard applies her data/technical expertise on scientific research projects, including a recent study utilizing natural language processing to better track lung cancer patients. I lead a data science team at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. Our team's primary focus is building tools and services to help support data intensive research and Fred Hutch's mission of eliminating cancer and related disease. We wrangle data and develop machine learning and software applications to get the right information to our scientists. How did you get started in this field?