Data analysis has become a crucial tool in healthcare. From helping doctors spot cancer and sepsis early to calculating bed capacity in hospitals, interrogating large data sets can enable clinicians to provide more tailored patient care and make headway in understanding diseases overall.
Big data has also played a crucial and remarkable role in the fight against Covid-19. It helped scientists understand the virus’s protein structure, enabling them to develop treatments and vaccinations at pace; it allowed clinicians to better manage resources in intensive care units; it even helped researchers discover the optimum temperature for viral transmission.
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