Professor Isaac Kohane

“I am concerned that it’s all too easy to see the data and say, ‘I’ve been doing big-data analysis for Target and now I can do it for medicine.’ That turns out not to be true. You really need to know something about medicine. If statistics lie, then big data can lie in a very, very big way.”  So says, Isaac Kohane, a pediatrician who co-directs the Center for Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School. This piece is a must-read. MORE

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