NEW DATA-MINING EPIDEMIOLOGY COULD SPEED DISEASE CURES
Posted on November 17, 2010 by Jeffrey Newman
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about Sergey Brin’s efforts to speed up the scientific research to find a cure for Parkinson’s disease by using data-mining through large numbers of volunteer members of social media networks. Brin, whose mother has Parkinson’s wants to break free of the “classic” scientific method: hypothesis, analysis, peer review […]