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Healthcare’s Big Data Opportunity
Reblog from tech crunch on healthcare improvements via Big Data.
Continue readingFreebie Friday – This Week’s Big Data Free Stuff found on the Internet
Freebie Friday – BIRT reporting and Data Visualization software from Actuate.
Continue readingA Healthy Dose – What a Big Data Medical Record Could Do 4U
Infographic describing how Big Data medical record keeping and information could provide better health management.
Continue readingA Healthy Dose – What a Big Data Medical Record Could Do 4U
Infographic describing how Big Data medical record keeping and information could provide better health management.
Continue readingField Guide to Hadoop | Pentaho
Field Guide to Hadoop | Pentaho.
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Everyone loves free. O’Reilly Media’s weekly newsletter includes a freebie and this week’s is courtesy of Pentaho.
“This book is recommended for IT managers, developers, data analysts, system architects, and similar technical workers, who are faced with having to replace current systems and skills with the new set required by NoSQL and Hadoop, or those who want to deepen their understanding of complementary technologies and databases.”
The Moneyball Effect: How smart data is transforming criminal justice, healthcare, music, and even government spending
Some awesome examples of Big Data in the Big World – NOT just business.
Eat Big Data
Part 2 of Big Data and Obesity. A suggestion for NuSI and others to tackle big problems with Big Data.
Continue readingDo I Look Fat?
“Do I look fat?” It’s not just women asking a best friend or the mirror.
As the US population continues down the train wreck track of increasing obesity, no one is immune. Wired’s Sam Apple reports on the latest up-ending of nutrition rules to search for the Holy Grail of why we are so … fat.
Same Song, New Verse?
Haven’t we heard what a balanced diet was . . . and then it’s not . . . before?
The Future’s Take on Nutrition
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Yes, theory after theory has been proposed and debunked by research as to how to eat well and not gain weight. With so many theories and diets, no single path has emerged, or it has but then been rejected or at least qualified later.
The Nutrition Science Initiative, NuSI (pronounced new-see), though, is taking a fresh approach to the entire research process. Not funded by the CDC or National Science Foundation, NuSI’s deep pockets are private grant – billionaire natural-gas trader John Arnold. Unbound by traditional research parameters, NuSI is out to challenge all the current diet thinking.
NuSI is the creative passion of Gary Taubes (author of Good Calories, Bad Calories) and Peter Attia (former physician and medical researcher). Taubes’ book not only challenged the current diet theories, but also tore apart the methodology that produced the results.
So what’s the Big Data Idea? Eat Big Data!
Part 2 – How Big Data can tackle Big Obesity
A dive into “Data Lake”
Data Lakes are an integral part of Big Data.