Strengths of this study include the following characteristics: clinical diagnosis of diabetes from chart data, automated data-derived indexes of medical comorbidity and complications, automated laboratory data, and automated collection of death data based on state records.
JS organized automated collection of chart data, assisted with study design, assisted with statistical analysis and interpretation, and helped draft the manuscript.
JAE contributed significant intellectual feedback regarding model building and analysis, assisted with the automated collection of annotation data, and substantially edited the manuscript.
Smart meters are being deployed replacing conventional meters worldwide and to enable automated collection of energy consumption data.
More recently, a host of proximity-sensing technologies have paved the way to automated collection of social proximity data: Bluetooth-enabled smartphones [28, 29], radio beacons [30], wearable radio frequency (RF) devices [31], and more.
Both single dimensional high pressure liquid chromatography (LC) and multidimensional LC (LC/LC) can be directly interfaced with the mass spectrometer to allow for automated collection of tremendous quantities of data.
Recent literature studies [8, 9] already showed the potential of automated collection of a large amount of data, allowing comparison between local volumetric CT-dose index (CTDIvol) and dose length product (DLP) values and the national DRLs.
The automated collection of USV and freezing data has been previously described in detail [15].
As automated collection of gap size has not been reported before in the literature, we detail on this type of data collection.
