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Thought Leaders in Healthcare IT: Torben Nielsen, Co-Founder of HealthSparq (Part 2)
Torben Nielsen: You’ll be surprised, that even though everybody’s insured, at how much variation you see in price within just one block of wherever you live. By going to an in-hospital versus a surgical center that’s right next door, you can save thousands of dollars. That’s exciting because it’s almost the analogy that we like to
Thought Leaders in Healthcare IT: Torben Nielsen, Co-Founder of HealthSparq (Part 1)
The consumerization of healthcare, moving into the 21st century, a Web 3.0 world — let’s discuss these with Torben Nielsen. Sramana Mitra: Please introduce us to HealthSparq and yourself. Torben Nielsen: I’m the Co-Founder and the SVP of Products and Strategy here at HealthSparq. HealthSparq is a leading provider of cloud-based healthcare transparency solutions. In essence,
Thought Leaders in Big Data: Eldad Farkash, CTO of Sisense (Part 5)
Sramana Mitra: Where would you point entrepreneurs to look for new problems to solve a new startup to build now? Eldad Farkash: If you’re coming from a scientific background, I would say focus either on deep learning or NPI. These would be the two major topics I would focus on if you’re a scientific kind
Thought Leaders in Big Data: Eldad Farkash, CTO of Sisense (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: There is one area that I think still has some openings. Some of this is very large opportunities but a lot of it is also small to mid-scale opportunities of these vertical solutions that take advantage of the more mature infrastructure layer underneath. But then, you need a serious amount of domain knowledge on
Thought Leaders in Big Data: Eldad Farkash, CTO of Sisense (Part 3)
Eldad Farkash: Another trend would be regarding the sources of data. Today, we’re just starting to grasp the value of data. What’s missing is more sources. When I say more sources, I’m not talking about the conventional databases. I’m talking about machines and environment. Blending this data into what we do on databases has tremendous impact.
Thought Leaders in Big Data: Eldad Farkash, CTO of Sisense (Part 2)
Eldad Farkash: A different example would be Galaxy Semiconductor. I’m taking you to a completely different spectrum. They actually test hardware, usually in Asia where most of the semiconductor industry is. They want to use analytics to crunch billions of records that represent wafer cost. They want to have the visualization that shows them, during
Thought Leaders in Big Data: Eldad Farkash, CTO of Sisense (Part 1)
An end of the year view into what’s happening in the Big Data ecosystem with Eldad Farkash, a veteran of the Business Intelligence world. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start with introducing our audience to yourself as well as to Sisense. Eldad Farkash: I’m the CTO and Founder of Sisense. Sisense is a Big Data analytics company
Thought Leaders in Big Data: Frank Bien, CEO of Looker (Part 5)
Frank Bien: Let’s go back to the HotelTonight example. There’s no way the data would have understood that there was a correlation between these two data metrics that they had identified. Those were two different business teams that independently built these views of their business. Then one them says, “ Let’s put this together and see what
