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How Spark and Hadoop Are Advancing Cancer Research

The combination of Spark and Hadoop has supercharged big data analysis across many industries and use cases by lowering the barrier of entry to advanced analytics and thereby enabling data scientists to create data-drive Read more…

Big Data to Give Clinical Trials a Big Boost

According to the National Institutes of Health, over 80% of clinical trials fail due to complications with enrollment timelines and troubles with patient retention. These problems lead to insufficient data sets, stalled drug development, and ultimately billions of lost dollars spent by pharmaceutical companies. Read more…

New Platform Caters to Cancer Research

Personalized medicine is quickly moving from concept to reality with a number of new advancements that harness big data and the ecosystem that have built up around it. Last Thursday, IBM announced that it has launched... Read more…

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