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A Data-Driven Approach to Cooling a City

City governments face critical challenges as more and more people move into urban areas, including rising housing costs, traffic congestion…

Dec 21, 2018 Yves Mulkers 96M views 2 min read

Blockchain Gains Traction in the Food Supply Chain

A recent Wall Street Journal article reported that “after initial tests, 12 of the world’s biggest companies, including Walmart and…

Jul 30, 2018 Yves Mulkers 66M views 4 min read

How data analytics is transforming the Health care industry

There is an estimated 50 Petabytes of data in the health care realm, predicted to grow to 25,000 Petabytes by…

May 25, 2018 Yves Mulkers 62M views 3 min read

Why cities must look to private-sector data sources

Data, as most anyone in IT will tell you, is driving innovation. Vast troves of data are at the heart…

Aug 8, 2017 Yves Mulkers 80M views 2 min read

4 Ways BI Can Help Prevent Harm in Healthcare

As healthcare moves away from the traditional fee-for-service compensation and towards value-based care, preventing harm escalates in importance. Risk surrounds…

Apr 22, 2017 Yves Mulkers 115M views 2 min read

Facebook’s AI Is Learning to Predict and Prevent Suicide

For years, Facebook has been investing in artificial intelligence fields like machine learning and deep neural nets to build its…

Mar 20, 2017 Yves Mulkers 119M views 3 min read

Device Technologies to Reduce Heart Failure Readmissions

In the past few years there have been a number of device therapies developed to treat heart failure (HF). This…

Mar 11, 2017 Yves Mulkers 123M views 4 min read

Using Predictive Algorithms to Track Real Time Health Trends

In this post we see how to build a real-time health dashboard for tracking a person’s blood pressure readings, do time…

Nov 10, 2016 Yves Mulkers 97M views 2 min read

Tableau and PATH fight malaria with data analytics, in unique Seattle-based coalition

The Centers for Disease Control, now one of the most influential public health organizations in the world, has a surprising…

Nov 7, 2016 Yves Mulkers 126M views 3 min read

Big Data, Open Data and the Need for Data Transparency (Industry Perspective)

Data is part of everything we do, especially given the current open data movement. From financial market performance to farmer’s…

Nov 3, 2016 Yves Mulkers 129M views 3 min read