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The Modern Columbian ExchangeNew Threats Require New Thought and Action
Susan Bennett, B.Sc. Systems Design Engineering, Francois Sauer, M.D., M.B.A., M.S. Systems Analysis, Ronald E. LaPorte, Ph.D., Professor of Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh, Mihwa Cha, M.S. Mathematics
Agenda
• What is The Modern Columbian Exchange?• Why does it matter?• Why Human Intelligence?
– Our limitations– Our strengths
• What are the Big Data Opportunities?– What does this mean for transforming repositories of information?
…It is our current interconnected world.Globalization introduces new challenges in:• Technology• Ways of Thinking• Lifestyles• Animals• Plants• Diseases
• The Scientific Supercourse is a concrete manifestation of the abundance of data, information and knowledge available.
• The challenge is how to harvest its great value moving from a static paradigm of “accumulated information” to a dynamic paradigm of “actionable knowledge for a specific purpose”!
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“Science advances by overthrowing an existing paradigm, or at least substantially expanding or modifying it. Thus there is a certain constructive sub versiveness built into the scientific enterprise, as a new generation of scientists makes its own contribution.” - Dr. Ismail Serageldin
• Compared to a database, a memory-base responds to queries faster and faster as data grows larger*.– *As the number of observations
exceeds the number of attributes, which is a common property of real world observations.
• Therefore, evolution selected for brains to be memory-bases, not databases.
Compared to Tables and Graphs•Pre-joined No Table Joins•Pre-counted No Table Scans•Pre-ordered No Sort Joins•Colocal No Pointer Chasing
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Some “Proofs in the Pudding”• 10B associative triples in Global 100 operations using 48 cores on 2 servers• Near-linear scalability of ingestion (0.87 slope) tested from 1 to 100 cores• Distributed cluster installation and management tested to 64 server nodes• Semantic expansion of 2X at recent customer, world-record 20 bytes/triple
• Real-time decision support: Pre-joined, pre-scanned, real-time decision support for complex, high dimensional vector problems: Sense Making > Reasoning > Prediction
• Democratized: business analysts don’t require consistent IT intervention for statistical models
• Learning: transactional updates and predictive models, human in the loop: Situation > Action > Outcome
“Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity”. WHO
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…the development and sharing of Sciences becomes critical for the prevention, surveillance, and containment of the negative consequences of these outcomes – which threaten health, freedom, stability and prosperity. This new situational awareness creates significant considerations and investments for governments and commercial enterprises.