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Big data analytics help teaching staff improve university students’ performance

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Juan Pedro Cerro, a member of faculty at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) and researcher at Edul@b, has demonstrated the effectiveness of big data when applied to education. Cerro, a computer engineer, developed the DIANA application (an […].

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Revolutionizing Medicine and Public Health: The Emergence of Big Data in Healthcare

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Big Data in healthcare refers to the vast amount of data that is continuously expanding and cannot be efficiently stored or processed using traditional tools. It accounts for the majority of big data in healthcare and comprises information, such as medical images, surveys, chats, and written narratives.

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June 26, 2023: NIMHD Director Discusses Ways Researchers Can Help Reduce Health Disparities

Rethinking Clinical Trials

Pérez-Stable, MD, Director of the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD), shared his thoughts on national priorities for reducing health disparities and opportunities for clinical researchers to help promote health equity. He recommended sitting down with people as equals to co-develop research.

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Big data – charting a new path to drug discovery and development

Drug Discovery World

While the potential for better insights has grown, acquiring powerful tools that can harness that data, and turn it into useful, actionable information, has increasingly become one of the most important aspects of life science research. Advances in quantum computing are also showing early promise for increasingly complex data analyses.

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Computer scientist makes big data more accessible

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UTA researcher working to make data more usable and accessible Credit: UT Arlington A computer science professor at The University of Texas at Arlington is working with researchers to develop a process by which data points in multiple graph layers of a very large dataset can be connected in a way that is both highly […].

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Big data powers design of ‘smart’ cell therapies for cancer

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Combining machine learning with cell engineering, scientists can design living medicines that precisely target tumors Finding medicines that can kill cancer cells while leaving normal tissue unscathed is a Holy Grail of oncology research.

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Skoltech researchers propose a new data-driven tool to better understand startups

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2021 Skoltech researchers used Google Trends’ Big Data ensuing from human interactions with the Internet to develop a new methodology – a tool and a data source – for analyzing and researching the growth of startups. Credit: Malyy et al.,