Big Data is a hot topic in the business and technology world right now, but it’s infiltrating even more aspects of our lives, including our healthcare systems. According to this post from Health IT Outcomes, the University of Michigan has recently invested a whopping $100 million into a new initiative involving big data and science. The goal of the initiative will be to use research from a variety of fields, namely transportation and health and social sciences, to develop new approaches to using big data.
The Data, Information, Knowledge, Wisdom pyramid is a representation of the logical progression in data analysis solutions. Wisdom is at the top of the pyramid, indicating the highest possible level of analysis and should be the end goal in order to produce competitive data science services.
