NYU Data Science newsletter – November 24, 2015

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Dubai-Ramez Shehadi, Executive Vice President & Managing Director, Booz Allen Hamilton ( Booz Allen ), highlighted the need for a framework to define degrees of smartness of public services in cities today, during a keynote speech at the smartcon 2015 conference in Dubai. Referring to a report published by Booz Allen entitled ‘Smart Cities: A Gateway to Digital Life’, Shehadi called for the standardization of a ‘smartness’ barometer against which services and initiatives launched by the government and private sector can be measured and evaluated.

Recently, Seattle Channel paid a visit to the eScience Institute, producing a video discussing the University of Washington’s partnership with the City of Seattle as part of the White House’s Smart Cities Initiative.Recently, Seattle Channel paid a visit to the eScience Institute, producing a video discussing the University of Washington’s partnership with the City of Seattle as part of the White House’s Smart Cities Initiative.

In 20 case studies for tests for such things as cancer and heart disease, FDA finds serious problems.

Inaccurate results spurred some people to have abortions, others to take unnecessary drugs.

White House, Congress ponder stricter standards for lab tests.

In intensive care units for newborn babies, genetic disorders are the leading cause of death, so diagnosing the problem quickly is paramount. Now, in a record-breaking 26 hours, pediatricians can scan and analyze the entire genome of a critically ill infant, thanks largely to a hardware system designed to handle the big data of genetics. In a recent study published in Genome Medicine, the unit reduced the time for the key analysis step from 15 hours to a mere 40 minutes.

In this episode of the O’Reilly Data Show, I sat down with Jai Ranganathan, senior director of product management at Cloudera. We talked about the trends in the Hadoop ecosystem, cloud computing, the recent surge in interest in all things real time, and hardware trends.

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