It is understood that any country's innovation pipeline, competitive edge, and domestic productivity will increasingly depend on the available deep analytic talent. Trillions of data are being captured day-by-day by governments, companies, and the scientific community. Sensors embedded in digital devices monitor a host of parameters that, combined with the digital capture of individual actions and behaviors, including the chatter in social networks, offer new venues for research on huge data sets. Although much effort is focusing on consumer behavior, questions about health and well-being are not excluded from this new trend of mining large observational data sets.
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