• Personalized Health Project Integrates E-Medical Data, DNA

    Updated: 2009-09-30 21:40:51
    “Medical research takes a lot of time. Clinical trials and the unfolding of outcomes, like whether a sick patient is cured of an ailment and suffers no reoccurrence months or years later, can take decades. But the collection, sharing, and analysis of data involved with medical research should get much easier. The seeds for significant advancements [...]

  • Elektronische Gesundheitskarte „Die Daten sind sicher“

    Updated: 2009-09-30 18:36:09
    “Wer Krankheiten anderer Leute auskundschaften will, könnte ab Donnerstag leichtes Spiel haben. Dann wird die neue Gesundheitskarte eingeführt. Datenschützer befinden sich in Alarmbereitschaft. Die Kassen dagegen winken ab.” Article (German) Focus, 30 September 2009

  • Electronic medical records could spot abuse: study

    Updated: 2009-09-30 16:44:25
    “Electronic medical records might help doctors identify men and women most likely to be victims of domestic abuse, and perhaps some day other medical conditions, too, researchers said on Tuesday. Their report, published in the British Medical Journal, found women who showed up in emergency rooms with injuries, poisoning, and alcoholism were also later likely to [...]

  • EHR group partners with IT companies to push adoption in Arizona

    Updated: 2009-09-30 16:35:19
    “The Purchasing & Assistance Collaborative for Electronic Health Records is partnering with two health IT vendors in an effort to provide Arizona’s physician practices with affordable electronic health records. PACeHR officials said the partnership with Austin, Texas-based e-MDs, and Cleveland-based Noteworthy Medical Systems is expected to help drive the adoption of EHRs in small to medium-sized [...]

  • Hyperlocal Britain

    Updated: 2009-09-26 14:01:15
    William Perrin writes about the hyperlocal scene in the UK. It's interesting to hear what he has to say regarding the slight differences in approach and business models. William says that hyperlocal in the uk is similar to America but...

  • Twingly, Zakta and the rise of Web Gardening

    Updated: 2009-09-23 13:21:33
    I’ve written about the launch of Zakta – a conflation of individual passion for a topic, social computing and tools, and search. Yesterday I got an email from Twingly getting things rolling for their new Channels product: On October 1st,...

  • Mike Chelen: Information Retrieval/Data Mining Engineer - EMBL

    Updated: 2009-09-21 06:41:36

  • Strength of Nations in Seadragon

    Updated: 2009-09-21 03:28:40
    The Strength of Nations graphic by Cameron Chapman has made the rounds of a number of data visualization and infographics blogs (starting at Web Designer Depot). I've dropped it into the wonderful Seadragon web site (courtesy of Live Labs). This...

  • BBC’ Visualization of Broadband Growth

    Updated: 2009-09-20 05:43:33
    Another nice viz from the beeb:

  • BBC Crime Map

    Updated: 2009-09-19 23:31:48
    Cool Infographics points to a sweet GIS page on the BBC which shows crime data for the city of Oxford.

  • Hyperlocal Funding - Fwix get $2.75M

    Updated: 2009-09-19 14:40:09
    Digital Media Wire reports that Fwix - an aggregator of hyperlocal news - has raised $2.75M from BlueRun ventures. Fwix aggregates content from blogs and other sources, organizes them by city and provides a simple news reading experience. There are...

  • Calling All Librarians

    Updated: 2009-09-19 05:31:22
    I just received a copy of Inside Larry and Sergey's Brain by Richard Brandt. I'm generally pretty bad at reading this type of book and getting a review out in a timely manner, so this time I'm going to try...

  • Meet the Elements

    Updated: 2009-09-16 13:11:51
    If you’ve not yet seen it: [via infosthetics]

  • Visual Search is Semantic Browsing

    Updated: 2009-09-15 15:14:12
    I really like Bing’s new visual search feature. I like it partly because of what it does, but I like it even more for the fact that Microsoft is taking risks and exploring new ways to help users interact data....

  • Same Data, Different Language

    Updated: 2009-09-15 04:13:26
    Labeling some blog data, I came across Wall St. Warrior. I was attracted by the temporal data graphics which are of a variety I hadn’t come across before. However, looking in more detail, the language which goes with them is...

  • Untitled

    Updated: 2009-09-14 21:13:53

  • Two New Data Mining Blogs

    Updated: 2009-09-11 01:16:48
    I write “new” but I mean new in the List of Data Mining Blogs of course. The first one is quite new (June 2009), but the second one exists since August 2006. Here they are: Data into results (Sébastien Derivaux): This new blog, written by a consutlant in data mining, has interesting content about data mining [...]

  • When Behavioral Targeting and CRM meet

    Updated: 2009-09-03 11:20:27
    I’m currently working on a targeted advertising project for a telco company. A new solution for personalizing web site interactions, based on the fusion of customer and web behavioral data, has been developed. I would like to share ideas about this project and get your opinion about it. Nowadays, customer data (CRM) and web behaviors are [...]

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