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Verily Uses Big Health Data
Alphabet, Inc’s life insurance company Verily will use big data, reports Bloomberg.
Verily, the Alphabet Inc. life sciences unit that’s previously targeted mosquito-borne illness and launched Covid-19 testing programs, is getting into the health insurance business.
Read more...Writing the Role of the Chief Data Officer
According to ZD Net, companies are embracing big data and adding chief data officers, but often are unsure what duties the CDO should have.
The rise of chief data officers (CDOs), who are responsible for organisation-wide governance, management and exploitation of information, has been rapid.
Read more...Big Data Helps with Infrastructure Decisions
According to Venture Beat, StreetLight Data is on step closer to bringing big data insights to cities looking to upgrade their transportation infrastructure.
StreetLight Data, a big data platform that helps cities unlock mobility insights from location data from smartphone apps, has raised $15 million in a series D round of funding.
Read more...Colleges Use Big Data to Track Covid
Colleges are relying on big data dashboards to help them track and prevent Covid-19 outbreaks on their campuses, reports Health Analytics.
To help track and monitor the spread of COVID-19 on college campuses, leaders across the country are implementing big data dashboards to promote transparency and comfort among students, faculty, and staff.
Read more...Using Big Data in Climate Research
Big data can play an important role in combating climate change, reports Inside Big Data.
Amid the ongoing and wall-to-wall coverage of the Covid-19 pandemic, you may have missed an important piece of news. An academic paper published last month by Australian climate scientist, Steven Sherwood and a team of global colleagues, is arguably one of the most important – and one of the most terrifying – pieces of climate change research to emerge in recent years.
Read more...Healthcare Employs Big Data
The healthcare industry is slowly adopting practices that allow it to use big data to better serve patients, reports Health Analytics IT.
As the industry continues its quest to provide holistic, comprehensive, and cost-effective care to patients, the term population health management has emerged as a crucial task for organizations to undertake.
Read more...Researchers Tap Big Sleep Data
According to Inside Big Data, big data is helping researchers unlock the mysteries of sleep.
In 2016, a study by CDC found that a third of adults in the US get less than the recommended seven hours of sleep a day. In 2018, sleep experts from the UK warned that the children’s lack of sleep was a hidden health crisis after the National Health Service came out with the latest statistics.
Read more...Big Data Plays Role in Determining Cancer Outcome
Big data is playing a role in determining which cancer patients could survive Covid-19, reports Forbes.
New research has provided important information describing which individuals with cancer are more likely to experience severe outcomes or die if they contract the SARS-CoV2 coronavirus.
Read more...Big Data Reveals Narrative in Storytelling
According to Psychology Today, big data shows that storytelling has underlying narrative structures.
A massive, first-of-its-kind text analysis study using big data reveals universal narrative structures that have gone under the radar until now.
Read more...Big Data Tracks Covid Slump
Big data can be used to track Covid’s impact on the economy, reports the Guardian.
This week it will be confirmed that Britain’s economy is in the deepest recession for at least a century. Yet only a few days ago, the Bank of England heralded a return to growth, forecasting a more rapid recovery than previously feared.
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