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 to process and learn about our lifestyles and our health. Collectively, we can start to understand how a culture as a whole can change habits and behaviors, much like looking down on lives from thousands of feet above. [2:43]