Health Data Science

Data science experts Foster Provost and Tom Fawcett, Data Science for Business introduces the fundamental principles of data science, and walks you through the "data-analytic thinking" necessary for extracting useful knowledge and business value from the data you collect. This guide also helps you understand the many data-mining techniques in use today.

It has never been easier for organizations to gather, store, and process data. Use of data science is driven by the rise of big data and social media, the development of high-performance computing, and the emergence of such powerful methods for data analysis and modeling as deep learning. Data science encompasses a set of principles, problem definitions, algorithms, and processes for extracting non-obvious and useful patterns from large datasets.

By the end of on average day in the early 21st century, human beings searching the Internet will amass eight trillion gigabytes of data. This staggering amount of information - unprecedented in history - can tell us a great deal about who we are - the fears, desires, and behaviors that drive us, and the conscious and unconscious decisions we make. From the profound to the mundane, we can gain astonishing knowledge about the human psyche that less than 20 years ago seemed unfathomable.

In this book, you’ll find methods and techniques to organize your data, extract the information, and analyze it. There’s a way to make sure your company is going in the right direction, and this audiobook will reveal the secret behind a successful business.

In his groundbreaking book Predictably Irrational, social scientist Dan Ariely revealed the multiple biases that lead us into making unwise decisions. Now, in The Upside of Irrationality, he exposes the surprising negative and positive effects irrationality can have on our lives. Focusing on our behaviors at work and in relationships, he offers new insights and eye-opening truths about what really motivates us on the job.

In the age of Big Data we often believe that our predictions about the future are better than ever before. But as risk expert Gerd Gigerenzer shows, the surprising truth is that in the real world, we often get better results by using simple rules and considering less information. In Risk Savvy, Gigerenzer reveals that most of us, including doctors, lawyers, financial advisers, and elected officials, misunderstand statistics much more often than we think, leaving us not only misinformed, but vulnerable to exploitation.

Concepts like life expectancy, poverty, and the demographic transition seem easy and obvious. But there's actually some nuance to them. This book is an easy introduction to the use of these traditional measures, indicators and models of population health. It's ideal for use by students, researchers, policy makers, NGOs, and funders. Raywat Deonandan, holds a PhD in Epidemiology & Biostatistics and is a faculty member of the Interdisciplinary School of Health Sciences at the University of Ottawa. He is a multi-award winning writer, educator, and scientist, as well as a well published scholar.

We are on the cusp of a major transformation in healthcare—yet few people know it. At top hospitals and a few innovative health-tech startups, scientists are working closely with patients to dramatically extend their "healthspan"—the number of healthy years before disease sets in. In The Age of Scientific Wellness, two visionary leaders of this revolution in health take us on a thrilling journey to this new frontier of medicine.

Children of the Cure tells the story of the only Medical Study that has two publications in the academic literature - telling precisely the opposite story - and how no one is bothered by this. Study 329 was a clinical study that began in 1994 giving a new antidepressant to teenagers. It has become the most famous clinical trial ever, leading to a fraud charge, a $3 billion fine, and a Black Box Warning.

As Nobel Prize-winning economist Ronald Coase once cynically observed, "If you torture data long enough, it will confess." Lying with statistics is a time-honored con. In Standard Deviations, economics professor Gary Smith walks us through the various tricks and traps that people use to back up their own crackpot theories. Sometimes, the unscrupulous deliberately try to mislead us. Other times, the well-intentioned are blissfully unaware of the mischief they are committing.

Did you know the value of data usage has increased job opportunities but that there are few specialists? These days, everyone is aware of the role data can play, whether it is an election, business, or education. But how can you start working in a wide interdisciplinary field that is occupied with so much hype? This audiobook presents you with a step-by-step approach to data science as well as secrets only known by the best data scientists.

Data science has a huge impact on how companies conduct business, and those who don't learn about this revolutionary field could be left behind. You see, data science will help you make better decisions, know what products and services to release, and how to provide better service to your customers. In this guidebook, you will discover more about data science and how to get started in this field.

In his first best seller, The End of Illness, David Agus revealed how to add vibrant years to your life by knowing the real facts of health. In this book he builds on that theme by showing why this is the luckiest time yet to be alive, giving you the keys to the new kingdom of wellness. Medicine is undergoing rapid change. In the old world, you followed general principles, and doctors treated you based on broad, one-size-fits-all solutions.

If you want to learn about data science, then pay attention...This audiobook will discuss everything that you need to know when it comes to working in the field of data science. There is so much that we can explore and learn about when it comes to the world of data science, and this ultimate guide is here to help you navigate through these specialties. You will see just how important the ideas of data mining, data analytics, and even artificial intelligence are to our world as a whole today.

In our highly competitive world of today, we need all the edge we can to get ahead of our competitors. For a long time, companies have focused on spending more on marketing and advertisement, ignoring the powerful asset they had at their disposal: data. Although this isn't the case anymore for large companies, smaller businesses are still in the dark about this, and you can use this asset to your advantage. This bundle will show you how.

Ever wonder how we know what we know? Especially in medical research? How do we know that some diets are probably more healthful than others? How do we know that smoking is likely to cause lung cancer? You might be surprised to learn that it's not all about scientists doing experiments in labs. Much of what we know comes from population sciences. And epidemiology is the mother of all population health sciences! Nothing To Do With Skin is an introduction to the science of population epidemiology, written by a well known, award winning, senior epidemiologist. The book is written for the ...