A study of probabilities and statistics teaches how to grapple with data we all constantly confront and how to evaluate comparisons.
As senior marketers continue to grapple with data — what to use, how to interpret it, what to eschew, what to see beyond — they're flooded with perspectives and expertise and answers to those questions.
And while Camblong said the team's initial thought was that processing and storage would likely be the major challenges for hospitals handling what are extremely large genomic data-sets, along with issues such as data integrity, privacy and visualization, they actually found the main problem hospitals were grappling with was data accuracy.
The week demonstrated a wide degree of contrasts, from leading thinking on how to address the nexus challenge, to grappling with basic data collection and understanding.
The IBM teams, the executives say, underestimated the difficulty of grappling with messy data like faxes and handwritten notes and failed to understand how physicians make decisions.
Researchers have been working on it for the best part of four years, grappling with different data sets on topics as diverse as spending, waiting times and death rates.
But fields such as climate research, genomics, and toxicology are all grappling with enormous data sets and models that generate probabilistic instead of definitive findings.
Integrating new testing approaches into environmental health assessments presents challenges, including grappling with new data types, standardizing methods, validating predictions, and addressing uncertainty.
Grappling with varying data-governance regimes is different from grappling with varying building codes, because data necessarily travels across borders.
