Big Data Improves Health Care

Salon: During the 2012 presidential elections, the predictions of one shy outsider with a love for baseball statistics outperformed those of hundreds of campaign veterans and beltway insiders. How did he do it? Instead of gut feelings and anecdotes, Nate Silver and his blog FiveThirtyEight used “big data” to correctly predict the outcome of every single state and the District of Columbia.

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