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How data science can improve medicine

How data science can improve medicine

The TED Talk I’m going to suggest today is only an example -a very good one- of how machine learning and big data can bring improvements to health conditions of patients of today and tomorrow. Discovering interactions and effects between 2 medications, merely through data analysis (study was confirmed in lab only at the end) open a lot […]

Global trends in health by Hans Rosling

It was 2006. Open data was still a dream and data-science wasn’t a buzzword. A visionary TED talk about eHealth, statistics and correlations between health and wealth was recorded and published. In Hans Rosling’s hands, data sings. Global trends in health and economics come to vivid life. And the big picture of global development—with some surprisingly […]

3 tips to protect your privacy on websites

3 tips to protect your privacy on websites

You had better take the habit of not feeding all websites with your identity information. Too many websites nowadays are asking too noisy questions and keeping track of them become more difficult everyday. Usually a website doesn’t need your exact date of birth, at most it may need your approximate age. It doesn’t need your real […]