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Leveraging Data Analytics in the Fight Against Prescription Opioid Abuse

Cloudera

Every day in the US thousands of legitimate prescriptions for the opioid class of pharmaceuticals are written to mitigate acute pain during post-operation recovery, chronic back and neck pain, and a host of other cases where patients experience moderate-to-severe discomfort.

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How software can digitally transform child adoption

CIO Business Intelligence

All data collected by the platform is hosted on the AWS cloud, but Schwartz says convincing end-user organizations to trust the cloud had its challenges. But once initial fears are addressed, BEB finds its users quickly realize the benefits of being data-led. “We’re not about that,” he adds.

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Strengthening cybersecurity in life sciences with IBM and AWS

IBM Big Data Hub

According to a report on mapping the cloud maturity curve from the EIU , 48% of industry executives said cloud has improved data access, analysis and utilization, 45% say cloud has sped up delivery of new IT services and capabilities, and 44% say cloud has expanded sales channels across digital avenues.

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Themes and Conferences per Pacoid, Episode 9

Domino Data Lab

The lens of reductionism and an overemphasis on engineering becomes an Achilles heel for data science work. Instead, consider a “full stack” tracing from the point of data collection all the way out through inference. Finale Doshi-Velez, Been Kim (2017-02-28) ; see also the Domino blog article about TCAV. 2018-06-21).

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Top 10 IT & Technology Buzzwords You Won’t Be Able To Avoid In 2020

datapine

billion in 2017 to $190.61 To explain this most essential of 2020 buzzwords: connected retail is the seamless bridge between physical and digital retail, creating a connected, cloud-based ecosystem for enhanced consumer experience and advanced data collection. Regarding the future growth of AI, it is undeniable. billion by 2025.

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On the Hunt for Patterns: from Hippocrates to Supercomputers

Ontotext

As of 2017, the fastest computers have reached a speed of 93 PetaFLOPS, which is: 93×1015, or 93,000,000,000,000,000 operations per second. THE ROLE OF TEXT IN HEALTHCARE: Text is a unique resource because medical reports carefully describe the diagnosis associated with multimodal and multimedia data and also the relevant image content.

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Exploring and visualising reef life survey data

Data Science and Beyond

Last year, I wrote about the Reef Life Survey (RLS) project and my experience with offline data collection on the Great Barrier Reef. Since publishing that post, I have improved the flashcards and built a tool for exploring the aggregate survey data. The RLS manual includes all the details on how surveys are performed.