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Length of Stay in Hospital: How to Predict the Duration of Inpatient Treatment

AltexSoft

How many days will a particular person spend in a hospital? The length of stay (LOS) in a hospital , or the number of days from a patient’s admission to release, serves as a strong indicator of both medical and financial efficiency. In the US, the duration of hospitalization changed from an average of 20.5 Source: OECD Data.

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Recap of Hadoop News for May 2017

ProjectPro

News on Hadoop - May 2017 High-end backup kid Datos IO embraces relational, Hadoop data.theregister.co.uk , May 3 , 2017. Datos IO has extended its on-premise and public cloud data protection to RDBMS and Hadoop distributions. now provides hadoop support. Hadoop moving into the cloud. Forrester.com, May 4, 2017.

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Recap of Hadoop News for April

ProjectPro

News on Hadoop-April 2016 Cutting says Hadoop is not at its peak but at its starting stages. Datanami.com At his keynote address in San Jose, Strata+Hadoop World 2016, Doug Cutting said that Hadoop is not at its peak and not going to phase out. Source: [link] ) Dr. Elephant will now solve your Hadoop flow problems.

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History of Big Data

Knowledge Hut

For example, talking about the history of big data in healthcare, hospitals faced many problems earlier in patient data management, security, and privacy. A hospital’s performance depends largely on how patient data is handled, including accessing and retrieving it for various purposes.

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Apache Spark Use Cases & Applications

Knowledge Hut

Features of Spark Speed : According to Apache, Spark can run applications on Hadoop cluster up to 100 times faster in memory and up to 10 times faster on disk. Apache Spark at Yahoo: Yahoo is known to have one of the biggest Hadoop Cluster and everyone is aware of Yahoo’s contribution to the development of Big Data system.

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Top 16 Data Science Specializations of 2024 + Tips to Choose

Knowledge Hut

A Data Engineer is someone proficient in a variety of programming languages and frameworks, such as Python, SQL, Scala, Hadoop, Spark, etc. One of the primary focuses of a Data Engineer's work is on the Hadoop data lakes. Also, they need to be familiar with ETL. NoSQL databases are often implemented as a component of data pipelines.

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Industry Interview Series-Big Data in Healthcare

ProjectPro

Reduce the hospital/doctor visits, thereby lowering the cost of healthcare. An average sized hospital will generate some petabytes of healthcaredata every day. For example, fragmented point solutions, operational reports for hospitals, etc. These apps help the doctors and the patients: 1. Measure progress of the patient.