Healthcare Data Sources and Basic Analytics: These chapters discuss the details about the various healthcare data sources and the analytical techniques that are widely used in the processing and analysis of such data. The various forms of patient data include electronic health records, biomedical images, sensor data, biomedical signals, genomic data, clinical text, biomedical literature, and data gathered from social media.Advanced Data Analytics for Healthcare: These chapters deal with the advanced data analytical methods focused on healthcare. These in..
Data scientist has been called “the sexiest job of the 21st century,” presumably by someone who has never visited a fire station. Nonetheless, data science is a hot and growing field, and it doesn’t take a great deal of sleuthing to find analysts breathlessly prognosticating that over the next 10 years, we’ll need billions and billions more data scientists than we currently have. But what is data science? After all, we can’t produce data scientists if we don’t know what data science is. According to a Venn diagram that is somewhat famous in the industry,..