The Four Horseman of the Apocalypse are here. Famine, Disease, Poverty, Climate Change. Our planet is screwed... unless... we can use Big Data to solve some of our most troubling problems.
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Researchers spotted new ways to treat cancer when the National Institutes of Health enabled semantic searches of its huge Medline database of published medical articles.
Mobile carriers are providing researchers with access to anonymized data gleaned from cellphones in Senegal to provide a window into regional population movements and predict the spread of Ebola.
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Government data on veteran unemployment claims, skills data scraped from Monster resumés and LinkedIn profiles, and job requirements from employers. The result is a unique dataset for mapping the many mismatches between veterans and the job market.