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Containerized Spark Deployment Pays Dividends

Hadoop has emerged as a general purpose big data operating system that can perform a range of tasks and run all kinds of processing engines. But all that power and flexibility comes with a cost, which is something that o Read more…

How Big Data Can Save Lives at the Hospital

As a trauma nurse at one of the largest hospitals in the country, Charles Boicey saw his share of sickness and injuries, amazing recoveries and unfortunate deaths. But for all the good he and his fellow clinicians were a Read more…

Hiding Hadoop: How Data Fabrics Mask Complexity and Empower Users

"The early bird gets the worm," the old saying goes. What they don't tell you is sometimes the early bird gets eaten. In the big data world, the rapid evolution of technology is providing maneuvering room for second-move Read more…

Predictor Looks to Reduce Patient No-Shows

Among the reasons for skyrocketing U.S. healthcare costs is the relatively mundane problem of patient no-shows, which end up costing the healthcare sector billions of dollars in lost revenues each year. In response, heal Read more…

Leveraging Big Data to Predict Death

Chalk “predict death” off the list of “what computers can’t do.” A supercomputer at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, Mass., can decipher the likelihood of a patient’s imminent demise with unc Read more…

Analytics Big Role in New Healthcare Model

Big data analytics is having a transformative impact on almost every industry it touches. But when it comes to the $3-trillion healthcare industry, the impact is personal in more ways than one. For a look at how analy Read more…

Data Startup Targets Machine Learning for Healthcare

A medical diagnostic startup is attempting to use recent advances in machine learning as a way to make it easier for doctors to sort through medical information in the form of images, unstructured data like notes on a pa Read more…

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