Wealthy People Are Getting Full-Body Scans. Early Detection or Unnecessary?
Hacker News
AUGUST 25, 2023
The real cost of a preventive health scan goes well beyond the price tag
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World water gap
FlowingData
APRIL 3, 2023
In the process we threaten not only our own health, peace, and well-being, but also the health of ecosystems and wildlife. Tags: animation , National Geographic , water
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Cost of assisted living where you are
FlowingData
DECEMBER 11, 2023
Medicare and other health insurers pay little, if any, of the bill. Tags: assisted living , cost , Washington Post
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Oscar outfits as public health graphs
FlowingData
APRIL 6, 2022
The 2022 Oscars came and went, and it was like all anyone could talk about was how outfits paired with public health charts. Tags: clothes , humor , Oscars , William Lopez. William Lopez has the collection.
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Developing a data design language for the World Health Organization
FlowingData
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
Tags: language , World Health Organization. A custom chart library constitutes the reference implementation for the language and its principles. A corresponding chart creation tool will make it very easy for editors to effortlessly create and publish excellent charts.
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Clock shows percentage of life lived so far
FlowingData
DECEMBER 8, 2021
Shortlife is a clock by artist Dries Depoorter that simply shows the percentage of your life lived, based on life expectancy from the World Health Organization. Tags: clock , Dries Depoorter , mortality. It has a warranty of six months. I kind of want this? Please note: Results may vary.
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Increased maternal death in the United States
FlowingData
NOVEMBER 18, 2021
The United States is the only other Group of 7 country besides Canada to experience such a drastic decline in maternal health. Tags: birth , mortality , New York Times. From NYT Opinion: Over the past two decades, maternal mortality has increased almost 60 percent. Canada saw a minor increase in pregnancy-related deaths.).
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What the omicron numbers tell us and do not tell us
FlowingData
JANUARY 4, 2022
May Louise Kelly for NPR spoke briefly with biostatistics professor Natalie Dean on the omicron surge and what we can take away from the data : Yeah, I mean, the public health impact is made up a lot of different things, and we’re most acutely interested in severe disease and death. Tags: coronavirus , NPR , omicron.
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23andMe DNA test price hit all-time low after the breach
Dataconomy
NOVEMBER 24, 2023
The 23andMe DNA Test Kit, a go-to for those delving into their ancestry, now presents an unprecedented opportunity with a slashed price tag. For those with a broader curiosity about both ancestry and health insights, the health and ancestry DNA kit can be snagged at a special rate of $99. Featured image credit: 23andme
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Period trackers and legal implications
FlowingData
JULY 18, 2022
This is because a medical abortion presents the same way as a miscarriage, and prosecutors must prove intent or willful endangerment of an embryo or fetus in order to convict someone (though being arrested at all is traumatizing and can cause severe health consequences). Tags: period , privacy.
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What works in visualization, scientifically speaking
FlowingData
DECEMBER 17, 2021
Zacks, and Jessica Hullman published in Psychological Science in the Public Interest an expansive review of what researchers know so far about how visualization works : Effectively designed data visualizations allow viewers to use their powerful visual systems to understand patterns in data across science, education, health, and public policy.
Four types of people who prevent full vaccination
FlowingData
MAY 21, 2021
It will allow health officials to target their strategies in ways that ignore demographic categories, like age and race. Tags: coronavirus , New York Times , vaccination. adults, we grouped people into distinct profiles based on their shared beliefs and barriers to getting the vaccine.
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Professor says he was barred from campus after Monsanto info request
Hacker News
FEBRUARY 20, 2023
” Carpenter told Inside Higher Ed that a majority of his research on PCBs’ health impacts has been from studying the effects on that tribe. Such consulting activities are outside the scope of your job duties as a faculty member within the School of Public Health and director for the Institute for Health and the Environment.
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Scented products with potentially harmful ingredients
FlowingData
APRIL 16, 2024
For Bloomberg, Daniela Sirtori, Madeline Campbell, and Marie Patino do some product counting : Data collected by the California Department of Public Health showed 108 potentially harmful substances listed as fragrance ingredients in everyday products ranging from face wash to conditioner, a Bloomberg analysis of database entries as of Feb.
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The Role of AI Technology in Tracing People
Smart Data Collective
OCTOBER 7, 2023
Not only do people share their personal milestones and daily snippets here, but they also check in at various places, tag friends, and announce plans. Health Insights: In some cases, the data from wearable tech has been used in court cases to confirm a person’s whereabouts or even their state of health at a specific time.
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Low risk for human bird flu transmission
FlowingData
MAY 10, 2024
The agency said, though, there is no reason to believe the virus found in milk poses a risk to human health and that pasteurisation effectively killed the virus. Tags: bird flu , Reuters One in five commercial milk samples tested in a nationwide survey contained particles of the H5N1 virus, according to the FDA.
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Best practices for building secure applications with Amazon Transcribe
AWS Machine Learning Blog
MARCH 25, 2024
Examples of such information are personally identifiable information (PII), personal health information (PHI), and payment card industry (PCI) data. Best Practice 5 – Use tag-based access control. You can use tags to control access within your AWS accounts. Best Practice 6 – Use AWS monitoring tools.
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Meta’s Next-Generation Image Segmentation: Paving the Way for Advanced Applications
Mlearning.ai
APRIL 11, 2023
Output using Meta’s SAM for tagging boxes Quality Management in manufacturing Image Segmentation can be used for quality management in manufacturing by identifying defective items. This technology can help farmers optimize feeding and breeding schedules, monitor animal health and welfare, and detect any potential issues early on.
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Visual explanation of menstrual cycle length and variability
FlowingData
OCTOBER 2, 2023
For the Apple Women’s Health Study, which uses cycle tracking data from iPhones and Apple Watches, the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health provides a visual explanation of how menstrual cycles vary. Tags: menstrual cycle With some tweaks, it could also stand in as an explainer for distributions and averages.
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Can Data And Analytics Solve Cold Chain Problems?
Smart Data Collective
SEPTEMBER 8, 2020
Since bad food or drugs can also cause health issues, these goods are also regulated. Health and safety guidelines list specific temperature ranges in which they must be kept. Information from these tags can be extracted through readers and scanners as they reach each stage of the journey.
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Why Upgrade to dbt Cloud over dbt Core?
phData
OCTOBER 12, 2022
It allows you to tag which final models are being used for a particular data product or dashboard. The great thing about this is that you can tag your final models, and thanks to the DAG, the parent models will all be brought into that exposure.
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Noise and health
FlowingData
JUNE 28, 2023
The New York Times explores how noise impacts health : Anyone who lives in a noisy environment, like the neighborhoods near this Brooklyn highway, may feel they have adapted to the cacophony. Tags: health , New York Times , noise I’m going to use this for the new reason my kids need quiet time.
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How To Use Dynamic Data Masking for Virtual Columns in Snowflake External Tables
phData
OCTOBER 23, 2023
This data might have sensitive customer info, patient health records, or employee data. Alternatively, this can also be accomplished through a tagging approach, but it’s worth noting that this method presents its own set of challenges. Want to learn more about tags and their benefits? Read more about it in this blog!
Use RAG for drug discovery with Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock
AWS Machine Learning Blog
FEBRUARY 29, 2024
The form should explain how your personal health information will be kept confidential before, during, and after the trial' Use the Amazon Bedrock RetrieveAndGenerate API For a fully managed RAG experience, you can use the native Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock RetrieveAndGenerate API to obtain the answers directly: bedrock_agent_client = boto3.client("bedrock-agent-runtime")
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Fake sugars in your food
FlowingData
MARCH 23, 2023
Tags: health , sugar , sweeteners , Washington Post For The Washington Post, Anahad O’Connor, Aaron Steckelberg, and Laura Reiley visually describe the use of artificial sweeteners in so-called healthy foods. Like with their piece on coffee versus tea , anthropomorphized food items take you through, which I very much enjoy.
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Countries with the longest healthy retirements
FlowingData
FEBRUARY 23, 2023
Tags: Bloomberg , health , retirement Starting at the top and going clockwise, countries are ordered by the difference between healthy life expectancy and retirement age. I like circles, but I think I would’ve gone with a more list-like layout here. The patterns and reference points get lost in all the dots and spokes.
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Claim file request generator
FlowingData
NOVEMBER 14, 2023
Health insurers reject claims often, and if this happens, you can file an appeal. Tags: claim , insurance , ProPublica However, before you file the appeal, it can help to see the records insurers used. ProPublica made a letter generator to make it easier to get these records.
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Data privacy examples
IBM Journey to AI blog
APRIL 24, 2024
The price tag can add up quickly. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is a federal law that deals with how healthcare providers, insurance companies, and other businesses safeguard personal health information. Organizations face fines of up to USD 7,500 per violation.
Age and getting enough sleep
FlowingData
APRIL 14, 2023
Reuters dug in to the science of sleep and how paying attention to our rhythms affect our health. Tags: Reuters , sleep On dreams: Sleep itself has cycles, in which the brain and body move through phases, marked by varying brain activity. In the deepest phases of sleep, the brain waves are slowest.
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Asset lifecycle management strategy: What’s the best approach for your business?
IBM Journey to AI blog
JUNE 20, 2023
Through machine learning , operational data analytics and predictive asset health monitoring, today’s top-performing asset lifecycle management strategies optimize maintenance and reduce reliability risks to plant or business operations. Put simply, it’s about fixing things before they break.
10 everyday machine learning use cases
IBM Journey to AI blog
OCTOBER 16, 2023
In genetic research, gene modification and genome sequencing, ML is used to identify how genes impact health. Geisinger Health System uses AI and ML on its clinical data to help prevent sepsis mortality. Then, it suggests the social media user tag that individual.
GPS Data Is Incredibly Useful for Geolocation Optimization & Automotive Design
Smart Data Collective
NOVEMBER 4, 2021
The cost of this new GPS program could have a potential price tag of nearly $270 billion. They have pledged to help use data to better provide navigation services, among other benefits. These cars will be able to provide valuable GPS data, which will help both offer better navigation recommendations and assist car manufacturers in other ways.
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What Is a Transformer Model?
Hacker News
MARCH 25, 2022
Transformers use positional encoders to tag data elements coming in and out of the network. Attention units follow these tags, calculating a kind of algebraic map of how each element relates to the others. Separately, the University of Florida ’s academic health center collaborated with NVIDIA researchers to create GatorTron.
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Five winning Tableau tips from the Gartner BI Bake-Off
Tableau
MAY 6, 2021
There are so many ways to be notified of updates in Tableau so that you don’t miss critical insights: managed (and secure) subscriptions, comments tagging, mobile notifications, and more. We set up an event-based notification for the administrator to view wherever they are, and then easily share that milestone with their team.
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In Defence of DOMÂContentÂLoaded
Hacker News
JUNE 30, 2023
TTFB is a good measure of your server response times and general back-end health, and issues here may have knock-on effects later down the line (namely with Largest Contentful Paint). Basically, the browser is now at the tag. This is because some metrics are useful to developers. The browser is ready to run your defer red JavaScript.
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eCommerce Companies Use AI to Ensure their Sites Are ADA Compliant
Smart Data Collective
MARCH 23, 2022
According to the World Health Organization , approximately one billion individuals live with impairment, or 15% of the global population. AI tools can crawl websites and inspect images to make sure they all contain alt tags for people that can’t view the images. Use a machine learning tool to automate compliance.
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Accelerate release lifecycle with pathway to deploy: Part 2
IBM Journey to AI blog
DECEMBER 19, 2023
Enlist enterprise records teams to study a set of data classification and retention patterns and enlist FinOps teams to assess for appropriate tagging and quota adherence. Build AuthN/AuthZ integration patterns that abstract nuances and standardize authentication and authorization of applications, data and services.
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Fight IBM i Cybersecurity Threats
Precisely
MAY 22, 2023
Consequently, the price tag can come in significantly higher for sizable organizations. Security health checks should be a periodic exercise as well. (Source: Institute for Security + Technology ) The hackers have a clear understanding of the value of corporate data and of each organization’s ability to pay.
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8 Revolutionary Applications Examples of Machine Learning in Real-Life
Smart Data Collective
MARCH 26, 2021
Manually, it would take individuals countless hours to sort types of images into folders or tags. Taking into account family history, current health, and living conditions, ML could show doctors who may one day develop a condition, which gives them a headstart for potential treatment or prevention. The Power of Machine Learning.
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Listen to the silent symphony of machines
Dataconomy
JULY 14, 2023
This can help to improve efficiency and safety in manufacturing plants Healthcare : M2M can be used to monitor patients’ health remotely. Sensors are often used in Machine to Machine applications because they can collect data in real time RFID tags : RFID tags are devices that can be used to identify and track objects.
Humans and AI: Should We Describe AI as Autonomous?
DataRobot
MARCH 10, 2021
I quickly tagged that match as a false positive. Use MLOps tools and practices to define and monitor key performance indicators and manage system health. When I google autonomous , autofill suggests search phrases such as autonomous vehicles , autonomous driving , autonomous weapons , autonomous chair , and autonomous delivery.
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Snorkel AI Teams with Google Cloud and Vertex AI to speed AI deployment
Snorkel AI
MARCH 14, 2023
Labeling unstructured data for ML projects has traditionally involved humans tagging each data point manually. Electronic Health Records (EHRs) contain rich information – clinical notes, laboratory results, diagnoses, etc. Example use cases include: Customize patient treatments using EHR data.
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Snorkel AI Teams with Google Cloud and Vertex AI to speed AI deployment
Snorkel AI
MARCH 14, 2023
Labeling unstructured data for ML projects has traditionally involved humans tagging each data point manually. Electronic Health Records (EHRs) contain rich information – clinical notes, laboratory results, diagnoses, etc. Example use cases include: Customize patient treatments using EHR data.
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Data Science Journey Walkthrough – From Beginner to Expert
Smart Data Collective
JUNE 4, 2021
For example, suppose the government decides to open health centers that are accessible to all villages. The center of each cluster is the optimal location for setting up health centers. Facebook and google photos identify people from images and recommend tags. The members in a group are similar to each other.
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