While there are untapped data and existing knowledge within these disciplines that can be brought to bear, there is also a need for additional interdisciplinary collaboration.
The view from high up is rich in untapped data, said Paul Saffo, a forecaster and essayist.
Patients' everyday experiences in living with an illness are an enormous source of untapped data, he said; aggregated, those data could generate new hypotheses and avenues for research.
"There is huge untapped potential here, revealing performance measures by making contracts transparent and then using performance data to hold public service providers to account," says Perrin.
As with many fields of data mining, we believe that there may be vast, untapped potential in the idea of using historical data, not to set thresholds (whether static or dynamic), the violation of which would constitute an outbreak, but instead as training data, that is, data used for sensitivity calibration by a detection algorithm.
Further, it also points to the untapped potential of such an approach to solve CMS design and layout problem using sequence data.
In a session at the Digital Catapult in London in January, Pentland told a room of investors and startup hotshots about the untapped potential of social physics – a field that uses big data to look at how organisations and governments can learn to be more effective.
Specifically it says it's using anonymised behavioral data-mining to algorithmically predict untapped demand for events that don't yet exist — and then serving them up as an own brand event.
Using cartoons to engage and motivate people is a consideration untapped by conventional theories with the potential to improve information to support self-management.
In our own work, we often find that "below the radar" data and analysis can illuminate untapped opportunities for grocers and other retailers.
