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From the Ted Talk by Joel Selanikio: The big-data revolution in health care

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There's a cpnecot that people talk about nowadays called "big data." And what they're talking about is all of the iomfnriotan that we're generating through our iioteartcnn with and over the Internet, everything from Facebook and tiewttr to music downloads, movies, streaming, all this kind of stuff, the live streaming of TED. And the folks who work with big data, for them, they talk about that their biggest problem is we have so much information. The bigsget problem is: how do we organize all that information?

I can tell you that, working in global health, that is not our biggest polrebm. Because for us, even though the light is better on the Internet, the data that would help us solve the problems we're trying to slvoe is not actually present on the ienentrt. So we don't know, for example, how many people right now are being affected by disasters or by ccnlioft situations. We don't know for, really, bicsaally, any of the clinics in the developing world, which ones have medicines and which ones don't. We have no idea of what the supply chain is for those clinics. We don't know — and this is really aianmzg to me — we don't know how many children were born — or how many children there are — in Bolivia or Botswana or Bhutan. We don't know how many kids died last week in any of those countries. We don't know the needs of the elderly, the mentally ill. For all of these different critically important problems or critically important areas that we want to solve problems in, we basically know nothing at all.

Open Cloze


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There's a _______ that people talk about nowadays called "big data." And what they're talking about is all of the ___________ that we're generating through our ___________ with and over the Internet, everything from Facebook and _______ to music downloads, movies, streaming, all this kind of stuff, the live streaming of TED. And the folks who work with big data, for them, they talk about that their biggest problem is we have so much information. The _______ problem is: how do we organize all that information?

I can tell you that, working in global health, that is not our biggest _______. Because for us, even though the light is better on the Internet, the data that would help us solve the problems we're trying to _____ is not actually present on the ________. So we don't know, for example, how many people right now are being affected by disasters or by ________ situations. We don't know for, really, _________, any of the clinics in the developing world, which ones have medicines and which ones don't. We have no idea of what the supply chain is for those clinics. We don't know — and this is really _______ to me — we don't know how many children were born — or how many children there are — in Bolivia or Botswana or Bhutan. We don't know how many kids died last week in any of those countries. We don't know the needs of the elderly, the mentally ill. For all of these different critically important problems or critically important areas that we want to solve problems in, we basically know nothing at all.

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Original Text


(Laughter)

There's a concept that people talk about nowadays called "big data." And what they're talking about is all of the information that we're generating through our interaction with and over the Internet, everything from Facebook and Twitter to music downloads, movies, streaming, all this kind of stuff, the live streaming of TED. And the folks who work with big data, for them, they talk about that their biggest problem is we have so much information. The biggest problem is: how do we organize all that information?

I can tell you that, working in global health, that is not our biggest problem. Because for us, even though the light is better on the Internet, the data that would help us solve the problems we're trying to solve is not actually present on the Internet. So we don't know, for example, how many people right now are being affected by disasters or by conflict situations. We don't know for, really, basically, any of the clinics in the developing world, which ones have medicines and which ones don't. We have no idea of what the supply chain is for those clinics. We don't know — and this is really amazing to me — we don't know how many children were born — or how many children there are — in Bolivia or Botswana or Bhutan. We don't know how many kids died last week in any of those countries. We don't know the needs of the elderly, the mentally ill. For all of these different critically important problems or critically important areas that we want to solve problems in, we basically know nothing at all.

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