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Big Data Challenges from a Public Health Informatics Perspective

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This chapter provides an overview of the opportunities and challenges that “big data” presents for the advancement of public health. It begins by defining core functions and concepts; moves on to examples to illustrate potentials of success and failure; explains unresolved conceptual issues; and concludes with presentation of resources and cautions.

This is source 1 of chapter four. They may want to cite this paper by Lazer et al., science 2014, if this extract is taken from here http://science.sciencemag.org/content/343/6176/1203.full

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  1. Division of Information and Computing Technology, College of Science and Engineering, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar Foundation, Doha, Qatar

    Mowafa Househ

  2. School of Health Information Sciences, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada

    Andre W. Kushniruk

  3. School of Health Information Sciences, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada

    Elizabeth M. Borycki

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Birnbaum, D. (2019). Big Data Challenges from a Public Health Informatics Perspective. In: Househ, M., Kushniruk, A., Borycki, E. (eds) Big Data, Big Challenges: A Healthcare Perspective. Lecture Notes in Bioengineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-06109-8_4

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