Sky News
New NHS data sharing scheme raises some concerns
New NHS data sharing scheme raises some concerns
Bloomberg
Synchrony Financial CEO Says U.S. 'Consumers Are Paying Their Debt'
May.03 -- Margaret Keane, chief executive officer at Synchrony Financial, discusses the strength of U.S. consumers, combating fraud, and customer loyalty to credit cards. She speaks on "Bloomberg Daybreak: Americas."
Bloomberg
Why Big Data Can Lead to Bigger Problems
Jan.10 -- "Weapons of Math Destruction" Author Cathy O'Neil discusses the perils of big data. She speaks with Scarlet Fu on "Walk the Talk," on "Bloomberg Markets."
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: The Human Face of Big Data: The Smallest Heartbeat
Twenty percent of all premature babies contract serious infections while in the hospital. By harnessing millions of heartbeat measurements from the ICU each day, Dr. Carolyn McGregor found she could detect a baby's infection at least one...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: The Human Face of Big Data: Personalized Medicine
We're moving into a person-centric world where people and medical providers have access to genetic data. When a person's genome is sequenced, the known differences can help doctors predict their risk for disease, whether or not they are...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: The Human Face of Big Data: Monitoring Health
We are living in the age of information. Everything related to our health is now data: how we feel, how we react to a drug, and even what our genetic code is. Individually, collecting this data from cheap and accessible sensors helps us...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: The Human Face of Big Data: Google Predicts the Flu
Until recently, the only way to detect a flu epidemic was by accumulating information submitted by doctors about patient visits. This process took about two weeks to reach the CDC - much too long to be effective. In an effort to improve...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Alec Ross on Defining Digital Diplomacy
Former Senior Advisor for Innovation of the U.S. Dept. of State discusses how diplomacy can be performed with changing global demographics, with changing power structures, and most prominently with a series of new technological tools....
Common Craft
Common Craft: Big Data
Incredible amounts of data are produced every day, so much that we can't use it all. Big data is a term used to describe the tools and processes that seek to make this data useful and productive. This video uses the example of traffic...