Showing results for "Data Science" in Health & Wellness

In the age of Big Data we often believe that our predictions about the future are better than ever before. But as risk expert Gerd Gigerenzer shows, the surprising truth is that in the real world, we often get better results by using simple rules and considering less information. In Risk Savvy, Gigerenzer reveals that most of us, including doctors, lawyers, financial advisers, and elected officials, misunderstand statistics much more often than we think, leaving us not only misinformed, but vulnerable to exploitation.

Columbia Business School professor Sandra Matz reveals in fascinating detail how big data offers insights into the most intimate aspects of our psyches and how these insights empower an external influence over the choices we make. This can be creepy, manipulative, and downright harmful, with scandals like that of British consulting firm Cambridge Analytica being merely the tip of the iceberg.

Columbia Business School professor Sandra Matz reveals in fascinating detail how big data offers insights into the most intimate aspects of our psyches and how these insights empower an external influence over the choices we make. This can be creepy, manipulative, and downright harmful, with scandals like that of British consulting firm Cambridge Analytica being merely the tip of the iceberg. Yet big data also holds enormous potential to help us live healthier, happier lives.

Nudge meets Hooked in a practical approach to designing products and services that change behavior, from what we buy to how we work. Deciding what to create at modern companies often looks like an episode of Mad Men: people throw ideas around until one sounds sexy enough to execute and then they...

We are on the cusp of a major transformation in healthcare—yet few people know it. At top hospitals and a few innovative health-tech startups, scientists are working closely with patients to dramatically extend their "healthspan"—the number of healthy years before disease sets in. In The Age of Scientific Wellness, two visionary leaders of this revolution in health take us on a thrilling journey to this new frontier of medicine.

Have you logged into Facebook recently? Searched for something on Google? Chosen a movie on Netflix? If so, you've probably been an unwitting participant in a variety of experiments - also known as randomized controlled trials - designed to test the impact of different online experiences. In this book, Michael Luca and Max Bazerman explain the importance of experiments for decision making in a data-driven world.

Der Podcast über die Medizin der Zukunft. In jeder Folge dieses Podcasts sprechen Beatrice Beck Schimmer, Direktorin der Universitären Medizin Zürich und Wissenschaftsjournalist Beat Glogger über Daten in der Medizin: Es geht um die Relevanz von Daten für die Forschung, den Austausch von Daten zwischen den universitären Spitälern, die Sicherheit von Daten und das Vertrauen in sie und viele weitere Aspekte auf dem Weg zur Präzisionsmedizin der Zukunft. Jedes Mal hilft eine Expertin oder ein Experte dabei zu verstehen, wie alles zusammenhängt.

What is Psychiatry and How Can We Improve It? In the last hundred years, most of the medical sciences have progressed in immense and unforeseeable ways―except for psychiatry, which has somehow remained immune to this progress. Daniel Barron, a psychiatrist who trained at the Yale School of...

Der Energieverbrauch in Deutschland, Klimastudien, Pandemie- und Grippe-Fallzahlen: Zahlen und Studien sind mittlerweile überall und deshalb gehen sie uns alle etwas an. In der Wissenschaft und Medizin kommt man ohne Studienkompetenz nicht weit. Aber man findet auch kaum noch eine Newsseite ohne aktuelle Statistiken, kaum ein Werbespot ohne die Angabe, wie viele Leser und Leserinnen das Produkt weiterempfehlen und keine öffentliche Diskussion ohne eine zitierte Studie. Doch wissen wir immer, was wir da diskutieren? Wie gehen wir mit all den Daten richtig um? Was gibt es für Studien? Welche ...

“Real Talk, Real-World Data” is an original podcast series developed by Pulse Infoframe and hosted by Joshua Henderson, Head of Rare Diseases. Our show features patients and patient advocates, industry and researchers and their unique perspectives on the incredible potential of registries, natural history studies, and other real-world data.If you want to hear meaningful conversations about the value, the challenges and the impact of real-world data, then this is the place for you. Stay tuned for updates on new episodes and guests as well as highlights from the show.