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Apr
16
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In the NNLM Big Data in Healthcare: Exploring Emerging Roles course, we asked participants, as they progressed through the course to consider the following questions: Do you think health sciences librarians should get involved with big data in healthcare? Where should librarians get involved, if you think they should? If you think they should not,… Read More »
Posted in: Data Science
Apr
02
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The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) is “an independent population health research center at UW Medicine, part of the University of Washington, that provides rigorous and comparable measurement of the world’s most important health problems and evaluates the strategies used to address them.” Their mission is to improve the health of the world’s… Read More »
Posted in: Data Science
Mar
27
0 comments Tags: data, GIS data, historical data, John Graunt, NLM Historical Division, Pew Research Center
It’s so easy to think of data as a modern phenomenon, that we forget that data analysis and data visualization are phenomena which go way back. A marvelous example is John Graunt’s Bills of Mortality, which this post by John Appleby calls “a 17th century spreadsheet of deaths in London”. Appleby goes on to do… Read More »
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Mar
16
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“Every day more than four million people use NLM resources; every hour, a petabyte of data moves in or out of our computing systems.” The National Library of Medicine Board of Regents has released the Strategic Plan for 2017-2027: “A Platform for Biomedical Discovery and Data-Powered Health.” Working in conjunction with NLM planning staff, the… Read More »
Posted in: Data Science, News from NLM
Feb
15
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For your Love Data Week poetry enjoyment… Life is filled with normal distributions But you are an outlier You skewed my mean(ing) Showing me a world beyond average Somehow helping me find my significance And yet still bring me back to center -@epilady For researchers loving their data, There are no divisions or strata! Their… Read More »
Posted in: Data Science