Cloudera Launches Data Scientist Certification

http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2014/03/28/cloudera-launches-data-scientist-certification

"Concurrent’s application platform for big data is certified with the Intel Data Platform, Datameer 4.0 introduces 'flip side' view for big data analytics workflow, and Cloudera addresses the industry need for big data skills with a certification program and big data challenge for data scientists."

Cloudera launches certified data scientist program. Cloudera announced the industry’s first hands-on data science certification, called Cloudera Certified Professional: Data Scientist (CCP:DS). Consisting of an essentials exam and data science challenge, the new program helps developers, analysts, statisticians, and engineers get experience with relevant big data tools and techniques and validate their abilities while helping prospective employers identify elite, highly skilled data scientists. The demand for data scientists is at an all-time high, and they possess a rare combination of engineering capabilities, statistical skills, and subject matter expertise that is difficult to find. Once candidates have passed the Data Science Essentials exam, they must then successfully complete a Cloudera Data Science Challenge, offered twice annually. Cloudera’s second Data Science Challenge opens on March 31 and is about detecting anomalies in Medicare claims.

Sensors from edible to embeddable, beyond wearable

Sensors from edible to embeddable, beyond wearable @ProteusDH #indivmed #mHealth pic.twitter.com/UimXS4XiTe
— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) March 30, 2014

Harvard Research Reveals EarlySense Monitoring System Reduces Length of Stay in the Hospital and ICU

Harvard Research Reveals EarlySense Monitoring System Reduces Length of Stay in the Hospital and ICU #HealthIT http://t.co/PYzlRlxzak
— Rasu Shrestha MD MBA (@RasuShrestha) March 21, 2014

DIY clinical trials coming soon

Beyond citizen science, here is @bengoldacre's new RandomiseMe website http://t.co/1JgJk2kbXE DIY clinical trials coming soon !
— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) December 17, 2013

Brain decoding: Reading minds

"By scanning blobs of brain activity, scientists may be able to decode people's thoughts, their dreams and even their intentions."

DIgitizing the #brain http://t.co/fVFC1FePlp A lot more invasive than surgery @NatureNews #digitalhealth
— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) October 23, 2013

ILLUSTRATION BY PETER QUINNELL; PHOTO: KEVORK DJANSEZIAN/GETTY

http://www.nature.com/news/brain-decoding-reading-minds-1.13989

Is The Digital Health Industry About To Fail?

An Open Letter from the GetHealth Team:

"Dear mHealth Industry, Quantified-Self Movement, and Champions of Big Data,
As you are no doubt aware, there has been a recent proliferation of mobile apps, wearable devices, and patient services which allow us to measure and track our daily health behaviors. In a world where so many problems are caused by unhealthy behaviors, the popularity of such products has come to be seen as the future of personal health: the panacea to our chronically unhealthy and overweight society.
We now have access to seamless, reasonably affordable technology that can track how many steps we take, the quality and duration of our sleep, how many calories we burn, and even our blood pressure and mood levels. Never before have we been able to gain such detailed levels of real-time data concerning our health-habits.
This industry operates under the belief that the more aware we are of the details of our daily behaviors, the better position we are in to make the changes necessary to improve our health and lifestyle.
On this view, information is the key to change. The more data we have about how much we move, eat and sleep, the more we can control and alter these numbers to become healthier and happier individuals.
However, while these devices do mark a new and interesting direction for personal health, they fall way short of offering true value to the user as they currently stand."



...keep the data in the background and reveal the insight.

Read more here: http://blog.gethealthapp.com/post/63681783790/why-the-digital-health-industry-is-about-to-fail#.UmKjrBBo_E8..."While I don’t agree that digital health will fail, they make a good point about the need to focus on the result and not the data. Far too many digital health startup companies worry too much about the data and not enough about what people do with the data. It makes sense why. The later is much harder to do. However, that’s also what makes doing the later so much more valuable."

Google launches Analytics Academy, offering free community-based video courses about digital analytics

Google launches Analytics Academy, offering free community-based video courses about digital analytics http://t.co/FFgYLpWqg2
— Jean Michel Billaut (@Billaut) October 3, 2013