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Will the real Data Scientist please stand up?

July 26, 2013 12:32 PM / Leave a comment

guess my bi job

guess my bi job

When fresh buzz is still shaking out around a trend in IT, e.g. now, things like job descriptions and resumes and internal hot project hype can distort to the max. Roles and expectations are well solidified for something like an operational grid DBA, but during this wild and woolly shakeout period for dataists, everyone has their own shtick approach.     Continue…

Medical Advances via the Semantic Web

July 9, 2013 10:13 PM / Leave a comment

images of human chromosome pairs

images of human chromosome pairs

I attended a product demo given by IO Informatics, the semantic health care analytics company, last month. The most intriguing service showcased was their Sentient Server and Knowledge Explorer tool. It can integrate with Oracle 11g (and other databases such as MySQL) as the backend data warehouse supporting typically billions of medical assertions.     Continue…