Making Big Data Useful for Health Care: A Summary of the Inaugural MIT Critical Data Conference

JMIR Medical Informatics

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Badawi, Omar ^a   Brennan, Thomas ^a   Celi, Leo Anthony ^a   Feng, Mengling ^a   Ghassemi, Marzyeh ^a   Ippolito, Andrea ^a   Johnson, Alistair ^a   Mark, Roger G ^a   Mayaud, Louis ^a   Moody, George ^a   Moses, Christopher ^a   Naumann, Tristan ^a   Nikore, Vipan ^a   Pimentel, Marco ^a   Pollard, Tom J ^a   Santos, Mauro ^a   Stone, David J ^a   Zimolzak, Andrew ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

Big data; Knowledge creation; Machine learning; Open data; Unreliable research

Indexed keywords

EID: 85099688310     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22919694     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/medinform.3447     Document Type: Review

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