Big Data and medicine: a big deal?

Big Data is a big deal but how much data do we need?

Big Data Is a Big Deal But How Much Data Do We Need? The more conservative among us believe that “Big Data is a fad that will soon fade out” and they may in fact be partially right. By contrast, others – especially those who dispassionately note that digitization is only now beginning to deliver its payload – may beg to differ. We argue that all things considered, Big Data will likely cease to ...

Big Deal - good deal? Or is there a better deal?

The Big Deal About Big Data in Upstream Oil and Gas

The oil and gas industry is a data-driven business. The industry depends on information technology (IT) to increase the speed of finding oil, enhance oil production, and reduce health, safety, and environment risks that come with equipment failure or operator error. Processing large volumes of data for reservoir modeling or simulation is not new. What has changed is the availability of new tech...

Big data in medicine is driving big changes.

OBJECTIVES To summarise current research that takes advantage of "Big Data" in health and biomedical informatics applications. METHODS Survey of trends in this work, and exploration of literature describing how large-scale structured and unstructured data sources are being used to support applications from clinical decision making and health policy, to drug design and pharmacovigilance, and f...

Evaluating big deal journal bundles.

Large commercial publishers sell bundled online subscriptions to their entire list of academic journals at prices significantly lower than the sum of their á la carte prices. Bundle prices differ drastically between institutions, but they are not publicly posted. The data that we have collected enable us to compare the bundle prices charged by commercial publishers with those of nonprofit socie...