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Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Big Data Applied to Health

I've written several pieces on the topic from various angles:

On how cell phone data is used to map the spread of Malaria in order to come up with effective prevention in Africa Analyzing Cellphone Data for the Greater Good

On Retrofit's approach: Data Gets Personal to Fight Obesity

On UPMC $10 million dollar big data plan: Creating Custom-Fit Healthcare

Monday, November 12, 2012

Dial a data scientist


well, not exactly, but you can find one you can hire with Kaggle's new feature. Read more about it in my blog post: 

Top Data Scientists on Tap

Saturday, November 10, 2012

Big data for voters


 Hurricane Sandy cut a devastating path through the Northeast, and many people are still without electricity, fuel, or shelter. They still had the right to vote, but what were they to do if their usual polling place was knocked out of commission? To find out where they should go, they were able to find answers in big data. Read more in Big-Data to Get Out the Vote

Thursday, October 11, 2012

What do you think of pink?

Do you automatically buy anything that allies itself with "the cause?" There are reasons to think rather than blindly support all that is dressed in pink as discussed in http://uncommoncontent.blogspot.com/2012/10/beyond-pink.html

Predictive analytics for relationships

That's at the heart of Dr. John Gottman's approach, which he expands on in his latest book, What Makes Love Last? How to Build Trust and Avoid Betrayal. I wrote about that book  here.

I've written about his earlier work in several posts:

The ultimate marriage manual

 and the 4 part Marriage success between two earthlings