Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association · 2015 · 85 citations · 1 references
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Understanding the human condition is a Big Data problem. This statement is nicely illustrated by the articles that follow from seven of the Centers for Data Excellence that have been funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K) initiative. BD2K is a trans-NIH program, funded by all Institutes and Centers at NIH as well as the NIH Common Fund; it is overseen by the NIH Office of Data Science within the NIH Office of the Director. The beginnings of BD2K have been described previously,1 and the purpose here is to provide an overall context, from …
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