Posts Tagged ‘Data’
The Valuable Data of Healthcare
Apixio has announced that it has provided funds for research to the Center for Biomedical Informatics Research (BMIR) at Stanford University for developing data driven methods to improve health care outcomes. Funds will support research to investigate and understand the impact of utilizing large scale clinical data in enhancing quality and improving health care enterprise. BusinessWire brought this news to our attention in their article, “Stanford University and Apixio Interpret Big Data for Healthcare.”
Read MoreGovernment Addresses Data Management
The federal government is not much different from other organizations as they are trying for even more efficiency and essentially, more productivity out of its IT investments as well. This is a challenge in any organization, but when you consider the size of government agencies, the volume of data they create and store, and the existing systems that have to conform – it almost seems impossible. This is a perfect opportunity for data virtualization.
Read MoreCollective Intelligence
Big data continues to be a challenge for many. A large EU-funded project has filed for several patents for this sole reason. WeKnowIt is designed to convert large amounts of user-generated content into ‘a new, collective intelligence’.
Read MoreThe Value of Data
Data is everywhere; on the Web, within an enterprise, in both closed and open academic communities, across every technological field or surface available. The Hindu brought this information to our attention in their article, “Connecting the dots, lucratively.” This frequency and availability of data provides an opportunity for analytics and analytics can provide perspective.
Read MoreNew Venture Uses Semantic Fusion
Digital Reasoning and Semantic Research have announced their integration solution with Semantic data fusion and analysis software. This solution represents the first time that unstructured text analytics at scale has been combined with visualization and analytical workflow tools. The result will deliver a unique solution for automatically understanding people, places, and hidden relationships in big data.
Read MoreSecurity Fears in the Clouds
Cloud computing is the topic of choice lately, but there are many hurdles preventing its adoption, i.e. privacy fears. This is a particular important issue for potential customers so those in the “biz” are working hard to develop new skills and technologies to relieve their concerns.
Read MoreManaging Data and Science
Thermo Fisher Scientific releases an updated version of their ProteinCenter software. This product includes more than 223 million protein-protein interactions in its database and direct support for the Cytoscape open source platform. This new version of ProteinCenter includes plug-ins for bioinformatics, social network analysis, and the semantic web.
Read MoreStandards Can Help Manage Big Data
Between buzzwords like “cloud” and “big data”, it is hard to see through the mirage of mobile devices and social networks let alone analyze or store the data it produces.
Read MoreWhat Will 2012 Bring?
Eval-Source has compiled a list of 12 technology trends and predictions that they believe will come to realization this year. They based these on what they see with their customers and their concerns.
Read MoreTechnology vs. Humans
Many articles have been written about the progress or avalanche (depending on your perspective) of technology and the resulting amount of data that has occurred from that growth. With the move into the clouds, the borders or walls have been removed on the boundaries of data created and accessed. From social media to medical applications, metadata is growing by astronomical numbers. So what new markets or new products are to come to handle this data volume?
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