{"id":23,"date":"2023-11-29T11:04:48","date_gmt":"2023-11-29T11:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/david-tang\/?page_id=23"},"modified":"2023-11-29T11:04:48","modified_gmt":"2023-11-29T11:04:48","slug":"about-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/david-tang\/about-me\/","title":{"rendered":"About me"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Who is David Tang?<\/h1>\n<h2>Summary<\/h2>\n<p>A\u00a0<i>clinician<\/i> keen on solving health problems by leveraging technology (including\u00a0programming, data science, machine learning, and cloud technology).<\/p>\n<h2>Background<\/h2>\n<p>I qualified in Medicine in Australia. Since then, I have been in various healthcare settings, from tertiary to primary care. In my previous role, I was a dual nephrology and internal medicine registrar in Malaysia. In total, I have over seven years of active practice in the field. I bring the unique experience of having practised in a tropical, low-resource, and third-world setting.<\/p>\n<h2>Why should I read your programming stuff?<\/h2>\n<p>I am self-taught with Python, starting my journey in 2018. Since joining the MSc Health Data Analytics and Machine Learning course, I have picked up several other languages including R, Bash, SQL, etc.<\/p>\n<p>Sir Dave Brailsford&#8217;s philosophy of &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/jamesclear.com\/marginal-gains\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">aggregation of marginal gains<\/a>&#8221; is what I want to achieve with my skills. Sharing my tiny 1% improvement in programming is the point of this blog.<\/p>\n<p>I guess this acts as both: a repository for me; and leaves breadcrumbs for others who want to follow in my steps.<\/p>\n<h2>More Info<\/h2>\n<p>See my full <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imperial.ac.uk\/people\/david.tang20\">Imperial People page for more info<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>My <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/drdavidtang\/\">LinkedIn profile, should you want to connect or DM me<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who is David Tang? Summary A\u00a0clinician keen on solving health problems by leveraging technology (including\u00a0programming, data science, machine learning, and cloud technology). Background I qualified in Medicine in Australia. Since then, I have been in various healthcare settings, from tertiary to primary care. In my previous role, I was a dual nephrology and internal medicine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1774,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-imperial-blogs-homepage.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-23","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/david-tang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/david-tang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/david-tang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/david-tang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1774"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/david-tang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/david-tang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/david-tang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23\/revisions\/33"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/david-tang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}