“Here or To Go?”

From Health or Human Rights to Health and Human Rights: Where Do We Go From Here?

I or many, it seems only sensible-and fairly obviousthat health is a human right. But such a conviction is still not commonly held among the majority of those working in the health field. Modern medicine and its powerful institutions, well established in every country in the world, leave us with a heritage of professional patronage in which decisions affecting health are the prerogative of phys...

Big Data Analytics – Where to go from Here

Big Data analytics and Cloud Computing are headlining the current IT initiatives. The information pool that is generated worldwide doubles every 20 month. Echoing McKinsey [17], Big Data refers to dataset sizes that are beyond the ability of typical database tools to capture, store, manage, and analyze the data assets. There is no explicit definition of how big a dataset has to be to be labeled...

Multimorbidity research challenges: where to go from here?

Stroke and atrial fibrillation: where to go from here?

S troke and atrial fibrillation (AF) are both frequent diseases (with respective prevalence >2.5% and >1% of the adult population in developed countries) and have major medical and financial impact. The link between the 2 diseases has been long since identified; the presence of AF is independently associated with a raw 5-fold increased risk of stroke. 1 Cardiologists have learned from the Atria...

Where to go from here? Mobility prediction from instantaneous information

We present the work that allowed us to win the Next-Place Prediction task of the Nokia Mobile Data Challenge. Using data collected from the smartphones of 80 users, we explore the characteristics of their mobility traces. We then develop three families of predictors, including tailored models and generic algorithms, to predict, based on instantaneous information only, the next place a user will...