2016: A PIC-SURE Awakening

Chirag and Chirag updated us on the geographically-oriented environmental PIC-SURE API-reachable resources including:

  • Geometry databases, geographic ID table that allows mapping different semantic views of a geographic area. This then includes a FACT table with time-constrained facts.
  • Discussed interaction with GIS-aware database management systems.
  • Updated us on the public PIC-SURE NHANES server
PIC-SURE weekly meeting 2016

 

 

 

 

 

Griffin Weber reported on patient linkage. He used a nationwide claims data to compare how well he could link patient based on age, gender and shared diagnoses.

Denise and Jared described the 3 billion geotagged tweets that will be studied.

Shawn Murphy discussed the pivoting functionality that will be needed.

Nathan Palmer reported on our scaling experience with SVD using SciDB.