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Hot Jobs in Tech: Technology As An Individual Economy
First off, I wanted to share this infographic created by KForce, one of the staffing agencies that handles large corporate accounts. Take a moment and look it over. You’ll probably notice that architect positions and mobile developers are in high … Continue reading
Data Analysis With R
I’ve been working my way through the Machine Learning for Hackers book from O’Reilly press (which really should be named R for Machine Learning), and just finished a small data analysis project in R. While the syntax is a little … Continue reading
The Penn Data Store and Medical Data Integration
Here is the second poster presentation from the NEDB 2013 conference at MIT. The conference was on Feb. 1, 2013, and was a boat-load of fun. ABSTRACT: As a premier research institution, the University of Pennsylvania harbors numerous databases: these … Continue reading
Posted in Careers And Work, Education, Genetics, Information Technology, Resource-a-rama
Tagged CCHIT-certified data warehouse, Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology, clinical data warehouse, Clinical research, data integration, Data warehouse, Medical record, Medical research, Penn, Penn Data Store, United States, University of Pennsylvania
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The Future of Health Data
Here is the poster that I presented at the New England Database Conference 2013, held over at MIT‘s Stata Center in Cambridge, MA. I’ve also excised the abstract for ease of reading (and so that Google will zero in on … Continue reading
Free Online Public Data Sources: An Annotated Bibliography
Free Online Health Data Sources: An Annotated Bibliography By William Murakami-Brundage 1st edition, February 2012 There exists a shortage of usable data sets and public health data. Whether your interest is biomedical engineering, health informatics, data mining, or public health … Continue reading
Posted in Digital Libraries, Education, Information Technology, Resource-a-rama, The Cloud
Tagged Annotated bibliography, CaBIG, California, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, CMS Data Compendium, data mining, Medicaid, Medicare, National Cancer Institute, Open data, United States
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The ‘Drunken Master’: A Prototype Case-Based Reasoning System
This shows the system that I have been working on. It extracts the data from an API feed, parses it and cleans it, and then feeds it into Protege, at which point a case-based reasoning system is built around the … Continue reading
Google Earth, World Bank Data, and KML Files
I thought that I would make available the KML files that I created for several categories of World Bank data indicators. Please note that the data was available only due to the kindness of the World Bank’s open information initiative … Continue reading
Posted in Information Technology, Media Sharing, Resource-a-rama
Tagged Earth, Google, Google Docs, Google Earth, Keyhole Markup Language, KML, Searching, SourceForge, World Bank
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Future Works
I’m really looking forward to getting my new desktop computer. My wife and I got a newer system for Xmas (in the Futurama tradition for holiday names), and I plan on crunching more of the World Bank data into KML. … Continue reading →