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
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.