In one of the first studies of its kind, Columbia's Philip De Jager shows how "big data" analyses may lead to new treatment strategies for Alzheimer's disease.
Big data analyses often drift to the shortest time frames, involving data captured in milliseconds and microseconds.
He also has an active program in imaging informatics and deep learning to perform big data analyses of retinal scans to identify patients who are at risk for retinal disease deterioration.
At the same time, we'll need a new class of professional the "algorithmists" to review big data analyses and provide society the same transparency and accountability that we have today, to ensure that big data is not a black box that obviates the public interests.
The future, most analysts agree, is to create a continuous feedback loop between insurers and consumers, so that consumers will react to the big data analyses that insurers do on them and change their behaviour accordingly.
Thus, combined analysis of omics datasets is essential [ 37, 53], and software is being developed to address these "big data" analyses [ 37].
In fact, the overwhelming majority of "big data" analyses are in reality very much "small data" analyses when it comes to the actual amount of data consumed.
In the past seven years, IIBM successfully brought together computer scientists, medical doctors, biologists, statisticians, and chemists to present and discuss current topics on genomics, epigenomics, GWAS/PheWAS, imaging processing, healthcare information, big data analyses, and so on.
Her research interests are in Human-Robot-Interaction, method development for digital communication and big data analyses.
