La recherche dans le domaine de la santé ne cesse de progresser grâce aux avancées technologiques qui permettent des analyses plus rapides et de moins en moins coûteuses [1]. Cependant, cela génère des quantités de données de plus en plus importantes : séquençages, essais cliniques et crowdsourcing ne sont que quelques exemples d'applications à l'origine de l'augmentation exceptionnelle du volume de données biologiques. Ces ensembles de données deviennent tellement volumineux qu'ils deviennent difficiles à traiter avec des outils classiques de gestion de base de données ou de gestion de l'information ; ils sont communément appelés "Big Data" [2].
BlueDot, a spinout from St.Michael's Hospital at the Unviersity of Toronto that uses big data to track and analyze risks posed by global infectious diseases, has closed a Series A round.Horizons Ventures was the main investor — it’s the private investment arm of Asian businessman Li Ka-shing, according to a company statement.
Healthcare Analytics firms could garner a billion dollars of investor financing in 2014. A number of top tier VC investors are attacking the sector.
Within Big Data, the Healthcare Analytics space is very hot with funding on pace to potentially hit $1 billion in 2014. In February of this year, we highlighted the growth in the space in 2013, and in just the first half of 2014, the space is attracting even more funding. Through the first half of 2013, Healthcare Analytics startups have taken in over $400 million in investor funding versus $155 million in all of 2013. This represents 161% funding growth already.
OneFold, a cloud-based Silicon Valley startup, is unveiling its first service, dubbed BigData Warehouse, for mobile and Internet of things sources.
OneFold has created a data warehousing technology that sits atop the Google public cloud. It leverages Google’s cloud-based BigQuery technology for better “big data” capabilities compared to Amazon Web Services’ competing RedShift data warehouse. OneFold’s BigData Warehouse is now available as a public beta.
From space, Norfolk Southern’s 20,000-mile rail system resembles a neural network and it increasingly works like one, too. The railroad has rolled out a big data system called Movement Planner, which helps intelligently direct the hundreds of trains that ply its rails through 22 states from the Atlantic coast to the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River every day.
COM SALUD organiza, el próximo 18 de noviembre de 2014, el I Congreso Nacional de Wearables y Big Data en Salud con el objetivo de congregar en un mismo espacio a profesionales de los ámbitos sanitario y tecnológico y debatir sobre la posible evolución y expansión de los Wearables y el Big Data aplicados a la salud. El evento, que tendrá lugar en las instalaciones de la Escuela Universitaria de Diseño e Innovación (ESNE) en Madrid (Avenida de Alfonso XIII, 97) arrancará a las diez de la mañana con un amplio catálogo temático entre los que destacan la integración de wearables y Big Data, el nuevo papel de los profesionales de la salud y los pacientes, las consideraciones étic
Predicting the future is hard and risky. Predicting the future in the computer industry is even harder and riskier due to dramatic changes in technology and limitless challenges to innovation. Only a small fraction of innovations truly disrupt the state of the art. Some are not practical or cost-effective, some are ahead of their time, and some simply do not have a market. There are numerous examples of superior technologies that were never adopted because others arrived on time or fared better in the market. Therefore this document is only an attempt to better understand where technologies are going.
Big Data. Ces deux mots accolés qui ont émergé il y a quelques années sont devenus aujourd'hui une expression dont on entend parler de plus en plus souvent dans notre monde où le déluge d'informations est tel dans de nombreux domaines qu'on ne peut plus se contenter de méthodes artisanales pour débusquer les données les plus utiles et les plus pertinentes. D'où la nécessité de passer à un mode industriel, d'autant plus quand le volume des données est de l'ordre du péta-octet, ce qui correspond à un million de giga-octets, soit l'équivalent de 3 tour Eiffel de DVD mises l'une sur l'autre!
Alteryx, a startup with software that lets everyone, even non-technical people, analyze corporate data, is announcing a $60 million funding round this morning.
Growing into a bigger provider of such tooling is the whole point of today’s round. Insight Venture Partners is leading, while SAP Ventures and Toba Capital are also participating in this round.
Imagina que disponemos de todo un conjunto de sensores para captar magnitudes físicas y químicas (temperatura, presión, aceleración, vibración, corriente, densidad, pH, etc.), resolviendo los problemas de robustez, alimentación y conectividad.
Imagina que instalamos estos sensores en una máquina, instalación, planta o infraestructura, captando sus principales parámetros de operación así como los del entorno.
