The Department of Veterans’ Affairs is working with IBM to analyze hundreds of thousands of VA hospital medical records using the Watson cognitive computing system. Improving the diagnosis and treatment of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder is among the areas on which the partnership will focus. More broadly, though, the VA system might be the ideal place to explore what Watson and other artificial intelligence technologies can do. They have the potential to improve patient care without blowing up tight budgets, by improving speed and efficiency rather than increasing staff count.
Data
Smart and budget-friendly, too
IBM’s Watson is now studying PTSD in veterans
All the news fit to link
External traffic to Spanish news sites plummets after Google move
Choice is good
MongoDB snaps up WiredTiger as new storage engine option
Meanwhile, under the surface
What we read about deep learning is just the tip of the iceberg
Se Habla Español
Skype can translate spoken Spanish to English in near real-time
Layering is key
Pro tip: If you use cloud storage, bring your own security
Not just for trolls any more
Readers say comments posted by pseudonyms are just as trustworthy
Balloon buddies
Google turns to France’s space agency for Project Loon expertise
There's cash in analytics
New Relic ends first day of trading as a billion-dollar company
Big data, big market cap
After its IPO, Hortonworks is a $1 billion Hadoop company (again)
Analyze this IPO
On IPO day, New Relic CEO Lew Cirne eyes the future of analytics
Mo' Money for Big Data
New Relic sets the price: $23 a share to raise $115M at Friday’s IPO
Ready or not ...
Hortonworks sets its IPO price; CEO says Hadoop is ready to explode
Cloud+Hadoop = $$
Apache Hive creators raise $13M for their Hadoop service, Qubole
Like Home Depot, with math
Data-driven home-improvement site BuildDirect raises $44M
Structure Data 2015
How big data got its mojo back
Just get the crowd to do it
The New York Times open-sources its Hive crowdsourcing platform
Chipping away at AWS
Altiscale raises $30M, now managing petabytes in its Hadoop cloud
Data Factory comes online
Yandex opens B2B big data division in Amsterdam and Moscow
Seen those features before
Researchers build pattern-recognition model that acts like a human
Won't touch your premiums
Insurance provider Oscar will reward you if you hit your step goal
Behold a mega operating system
Mesosphere’s new data center mother brain will blow your mind
That warm GUI feeling
Hadoop needs a better front-end for business users
Someone has to try
A startup wants to build a trading platform for sensor data
Classify this
With $8M and star team, MetaMind does deep learning for enterprise
Resistance is futile
So-called “dark social” traffic turns out to be mostly Facebook
I'll take "Hadoop" for $30,000
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Taking advantage of Twitter
Indonesia is mapping Jakarta floods in real time using Twitter
After initially mapping 8 million flood-related tweets throughout the region over the past couple years as part of a Twitter Data Grant, the University of Wollongong and a local emergency agency have developed a project called PetaJakarta that builds a real-time map of areas affected by floods, based on geo-tagged tweets directed to the project using a specific hashtag. According to a Twitter blog post announcing the project, the goal is to help emergency workers and citizens in one of the world’ most-populous areas understand how floods are moving and what areas have been hit the hardest.
The dawn of book learning CPUs
Allen Foundation gives millions to teach machines common sense
It won't steal your jobs, yet
Google is funding “an artificial intelligence for data science”
Automate those TPS reports
No more robot reporters: Narrative Science is now focused on data
Gobbling up all the data
LinkedIn explains its complex Gobblin big data framework
