The Curious Tale of a 19th Century French Urologist and Big Data
Considering a historical event that involves basic data analysis a big data event will always be a leap. Still, there is this very human need to build myths and stories around the things that are around us. Big data is no different. Without further ado, here is a story about a 19th-century French urologist and big […]
Political Uses of Big Data
The race for the next President of the United States rumbles on. A lot of attention is being placed on how Data Analytics is playing a role in the campaigns. Social media scraping and audience analytics. An Artificial Intelligence Twitter account that tweets like Donald Trump. Political elections and the data that surrounds them are […]
How is Data Science Fighting Disease?
Healthcare in the 21st century is at an impasse. Like so many things, it is a case of limited supply and unlimited demand, and the gap between the two is growing ever wider. Residents of the UK fear that the National Health Service (NHS) will undergo privatisation. Divided up piece by piece and flogged to […]
Big Data Could Revolutionise Healthcare. Will We Let It?
We’re a pretty suspicious lot here in the UK. Britain has the potential to be the world leader in Healthcare Big Data. We have (more or less) centralized NHS records dating back to the 1940s, and we have normalized personal data for each patient, which is far less fragmented than for the US, for example. […]