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Big Data, Healthcare, and the Human Lens
I’ve been following a great discussion on Susannah Fox’s blog today. The Lohr article that sparked her post and subsequent comments have taken up the position that Evidence Based Medicine tends to...
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Guided by the Evidence?
I was reading an article about the controversial Dr. Oz this morning when a quote from a doctor struck a nerve. In reaction to Dr Oz’s embrace of alternative medicine, he stated: “I’m guided by the...
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Agile Software Metrics
The rise of dynamic software development methodologies such as Extreme Programming or Agile Programming, reflect the inherent dynamism of modern software design. The malleability of software, the...
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Clojure Debugging ’13: Emacs, nREPL, and Ritz
I’m ramping up for a new set of development projects in 2013 and 2014. My 2010 era setup with slime and swank-clojure is unlikely to remain a viable approach throughout the project. I’ve decided it...
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Personal Experiments
Last week, my collaborators from Lybba and I posted a blog entry describing my Personal Experiments project. Please enjoy this little introductory demo. Also, I’ll be announcing a new study on the...
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Advanced inspector middleware for Clojure nREPL
Last night I promoted a new nREPL middleware project, ‘nrepl-inspect’, derived from the javert library. nrepl-inspector on GitHub This repository contains: an Emacs client file that extends nrepl.el,...
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Using the crowd to help diagnose rare diseases
Earlier this week I joined NEA entrepreneur Jared Hyman of crowdmed.com and “the current” host Anna Maria Tremonti of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in a discussion of crowd sourcing in...
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What can a concerned citizen do in the face of injustice?
The juxtaposition of verdicts in the Zimmerman and Alexander cases, and the unapologetic, non-reflective response of most of our political leadership leaves me wondering what I, as a concerned citizen...
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My Dissertation Defense Announcement
Title Crowdsourcing Health Discoveries: from Anecdotes to Aggregated Self-Experiments Time & Location July 26th, 1:00 PM, E14-244 Thesis Supervisor Frank Moss, Professor of the Practice of Media...
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MyIBD and Personalized Learning highlighted by Harvard Business Review
Heather Kaplan of the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, with a little help from the rest of us, published a highlight of the state of our work on the Personalized Learning System via HBS’s online blog....
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