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. 

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.

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.

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.