Talks and press

AI and Data Science in Public Policy

  • Dr. Marcos Barreto (LSE), Dr. Francesca Panero (LSE) - 8 May 2024
  • Generative AI in education: catalyst or constraint? Insights from GENIAL to inform Higher Education policy
  • LSE School of Public Policy - Beveridge 2.0 Programme - LSE, London, UK

Using AI Chatbots for Learning

  • Dr. Marcos Barreto (LSE), Dr. Jonathan Cardoso-Silva (LSE), Dr. Francesca Panero (LSE) - 27 February 2024
  • LSE Data Science Institute - GENIAL Open Lecture - LSE, London, UK

The GENIAL project - how can generative AI tools act as a catalyst for learning?

  • Dr. Marcos Barreto (LSE), Dr. Jonathan Cardoso-Silva (LSE) - 12 December 2023
  • LSE Data Science Institute - Research Showcase 2023 - LSE, London, UK

AI coding... and the GENIAL experience so far...

  • Dr. Marcos Barreto (LSE) - 2 November 2023
  • AI in Education on Campus: panel with Dr Caitlin Bentley (King’s College London) and Prof Fabio Arico (University of East Anglia)
  • LSE Eden Centre Talking Teaching series - LSE, London, UK

Data science and artificial intelligence

  • Dr. Marcos Barreto (LSE) - 1 November 2023
  • Career Talk, Year 10-13 students
  • Bishop Douglass Catholic School - London, UK (slides)

Ciência de Dados

  • Dr. Marcos Barreto (LSE) - 22 May 2023
  • 14o TELECOMPTEC - La Salle University (Canoas, Brazil)

Why study Data Science at LSE?

Abordagens inovadoras para entender a Covid-19 no Brasil

  • Dr. Marcos Barreto (LSE) - 16 December 2021
  • Google AI for Social Good research project
  • CIDACS webinar (Brazil)

Efforts and developments on record linkage over massive databases: methods, tools and case studies

  • Prof. Marcos Barreto (LSE/CIDACS) - 10 November 2021
  • PHRN Tech Talk (Australia)

Potential use of computational models and tools in the context of the AESOP system

  • Prof. Marcos Barreto (LSE/CIDACS) - 2 September 2021
  • AESOP webinar (Brazil)

Big data na saúde

Estudo de possíveis aplicações de transferência de aprendizagem em Saúde

  • MSc student Andréa Jesus dos Santos (UFBA/PGCOMP) - 10-11 November 2020
  • SERPRO Tech Days 2020 (Recife, Brazil)

A importância da inteligência artificial no combate à pandemia da Covid-19 e da desinformação

Data linkage models and tools applied to massive Brazilian governmental databases

  • Thematic panel: Data Processing and Integration & Knowledge Representation - 22 October 2020
  • Gates Foundation KiGC MNCH Data Science Community Meeting

A utilização da inteligência artificial e tomada de decisões sobre a pandemia no Brasil

UFBA e FIOCRUZ Bahia desenvolvem projeto para uso de inteligência artificial no combate à Covid-19

  • Prof. Marcos Barreto interviewed by Murilo Guerra - 18 September 2020
  • EdgarDigital UFBA (Salvador, Brazil)

Projeto IMAPI - Índice Município Amigo da Primeira Infância

IMAPI - Early Childhood Development Friendly Index

+Lugar COVID-19: um projeto interdisciplinar em saúde para promover a participação e o engajamento popular no enfrentamento do coronavírus

  • Prof. Marcos Barreto, Profa. Isa Neves, Ricardo Lustosa, João Pereira, Alvaro Moraes, Rodrigo Oliveira, Fabiana Palma, Murilo Arouca - 25 May 2020
  • Congresso Virtual da UFBA 2020 (Salvador, Brazil)

Do número real de mortes ao avanço dos casos na periferia: veja 4 indicadores que o Brasil não tem sobre a pandemia de coronavírus

  • Prof. Marcos Barreto and Associate Researcher Ricardo Lustosa interviewed by Lara Pinheiro - 15 May 2020
  • G1 - Bem Estar

Projeto +Lugar COVID-19: plataforma para o enfrentamento do coronavírus

  • Associate Researcher Ricardo Lustosa interviewed by Márcio Alvarenga - 6 May 2020
  • Programa Trocando em Miúdos (MP3)

Big data linkage & analytics

  • Prof. Marcos Barreto (UFBA/CIDACS) - 10-12 March 2020
  • British Academy/CONFAP Newton Fund Workshop (Brasília, Brazil) (Slides)

Educação em Ciência de Dados

Placing AI at the service of public health: the key role of data management and linkage

  • Speaker: Dr. Sabina Leonelli (University of Exeter, UK). Panel discussion along with Prof. Marcos Barreto (UFBA/CIDACS), Dr. Gustavo da Matta (ENSP/FIOCRUZ) and Dr. Giovanni Rolla (School of Philosophy/UFBA) - 6 December 2019
  • CIDACS 3rd Anniversary Celebration (Salvador, Brazil) (Sabina's interview here)

Data linkage and analytics efforts over Brazilian governmental databases

Data linkage and analytics efforts over Brazilian governmental databases

Como construir e validar modelos preditivos

  • Prof. Marcos Barreto (UFBA/CIDACS) - 3 May 2019
  • Seminário: Metodologias para a Utilização de Grandes Volumes de Dados na Pesquisa (Salvador, Brazil) (Slides)

Ciência de dados e sua aplicação em saúde

  • Prof. Marcos Barreto (UFBA/CIDACS) - 05 April 2019
  • Universidade La Salle (Canoas, Brazil) (Slides)

Understanding and predicting malaria epidemics

What tools and methods do we need to enable secondary use of routine data?

Methods and approaches to data visualisation

  • Prof. Marcos Barreto (UFBA/CIDACS) - 25 May 2018
  • FIOCRUZ Bahia (Salvador, Brazil)

AtyImo - primeiro algoritmo brasileiro exclusivamente voltado para a integração de grandes volumes de dados

  • Prof. Marcos Barreto (UFBA/CIDACS) - 20 April 2018
  • CIDACS' blog

Data linkage and analytics efforts applied to Brazilian governmental databases

  • Prof. Marcos Barreto (UFBA/CIDACS) - 12 December 2017
  • Institute of Health Informatics / UCL (London, UK)

Methods and tools for data linkage and analytics: case study on Brazilian socioeconomic and public health care databases

  • Prof. Marcos Barreto (UFBA/CIDACS) - 10-13 September 2017
  • Smart Technologies for fighting Zika-Virus Epidemics (STfVE 2017) (Recife, Brazil)

Large-scale data fusion of Brazilian socioeconomic and public health databases

  • Prof. Marcos Barreto (UFBA/CIDACS) - 31 May 2017
  • The Royal Society Research Fellows' Conference 2017 (London, UK) (Slides)

Design and evaluation of probabilistic record linkage methods supporting the Brazilian 100-million cohort initiative

  • Prof. Marcos Barreto (UFBA) - 24-26 August 2016
  • International Population Data Linkage Network Conference (IPDLN 2016) (Swansea, UK)

Treating heterogeneity and uncertainty in data integration: study on Brazilian healthcare databases

  • Prof. Marcos Barreto (UFBA) - 24-26 August 2016
  • International Population Data Linkage Network Conference (IPDLN 2016) (Swansea, UK)

Supporting big data in Health and Bioinformatics through hybrid parallel architectures and distributed execution engines

  • Prof. Marcos Barreto (UFBA) - 25-26 April 2016
  • Workshop Data Bahia - UFBA, FIOCRUZ, Sorbonne Universités (Salvador, Brazil) (Slides)

Probabilistic record linkage of Brazil's public healthcare data: case study on a cohort of 103 million records

  • Prof. Marcos Barreto (UFBA)
  • Farr Institute of Health Informatics Research - 8 May 2015 (London, UK)
  • London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine - 11 May 2015 (London, UK) (Slides)
  • Farr Health eResearch Centre (HeRC) - 12 May 2015 (Manchester, UK)

Infraestrutura computacional para suporte de aplicações de big data na área da Saúde

  • Prof. Marcos Barreto (UFBA) - 10 December 2013
  • Big (and not so big) data in Health Bahia 2013 (Salvador, Brazil) (Slides)

Infraestrutura computacional para suporte e avaliação dos efeitos dos Programas Sociais com base em coorte populacional referenciada no Cadastro Único

  • Prof. Marcos Barreto (UFBA) - 25 October 2013
  • 1st Symposium on Big Data and Public Health (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)

Padrões de programação paralela aplicados às arquiteturas híbridas

  • Prof. Marcos Barreto (UFBA) - 22 March 2013
  • 13a Escola Regional de Alto Desempenho (ERAD-RS) (Porto Alegre, Brazil) (Slides)