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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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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
Love, life and work – 3 ordinary examples of the extraordinary capability of Big Data
“How to save a life?” The Fray makes an excellent song from an age old question. Big Data and Cloudera’s Doug Cutting answer with 3 scenarios that impact how we live now: love, life and work.
LOVE. Historically, love has been dependent on locality, like high school sweethearts, office romance, or the rarest possibility of the blind date set up. Online dating changed all that and Big Data love is the drug that makes the digital connection around the world possible.
LIFE. The medical industry is one of the largest producers of information – previously all that data was dumped. Even the simplest efforts to recover and utilize literally vital data has tremendous effect.
WORK. Big Data isn’t all high tech. Maybe it’s not as sexy as love and saving lives, but Big Data can improve work production from information we already collect, but previously couldn’t use.
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GMS attends Big Data Tech Con in Boston courtesy of The Sky INTL
Big Data is a digital Wild Wild West of opportunity. A gamut of players sit at an open-source poker table holding the data cards (your information) from transactions, social web, telemetric/sensors, archives, and web media. Although US corporate participation today is found mostly in the mega businesses, garage start-ups are prevalent to making the Big Data products and services that change paradigms in the Information Age.
Perhaps someday there will be a new sheriff in town, but for now, few standard practices exist, even in regard to delicate conversation of data privacy. Big Data can be as simple as an app product that makes your life simpler. Big Data apps help you make decisions faster by understanding who you are and what you do from your data exhaust. Big Data also has grand possibilities. In the collective intelligence of crowds, world peace is possible. Global Maritime Sensing is one such example.
But what is Big Data? Is it the same as Web 2.0? Is it Web 3.0? Is it a new way to refer to the Information Age? Is it a concept or a practice or an application? Big Data is a paradigm shift evolving in several layers. In the next posts, we will step through those layers to get a better understanding of what Big Data is and what the paradigm shifts are that will continue to affect the world in expanding circles
Kapow graphic on Big Data sources
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