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Night: not today
Today, as every year the northern hemisphere experience the longest day. In some places, already from few weeks there is no night at all while in others there is, but just enough to help you sleep for a couple of hours. In this diagram check what’s going on today June 21st in Ireland.
The Ireland’s MedTech Advantage
Happy to be here. Proud of what we do. The Irish advantage: bringing the smartest mind together in one unique ecosystem.
How data science can improve medicine
The TED Talk I’m going to suggest today is only an example -a very good one- of how machine learning and big data can bring improvements to health conditions of patients of today and tomorrow. Discovering interactions and effects between 2 medications, merely through data analysis (study was confirmed in lab only at the end) open a lot […]
X-Flares and geomagnetic storms of the week
Summary of an X-traordinary day. 09:15 – Region 2673 produced a major X2.2 solar flare at approximately 09:14 UTC (Sept 6). This is the first X-Class event to be detected since May 2015. The active region is still in a decent position for Earth directed eruptions. 12:02 – The strongest solar flare of the current Solar Cycle […]
NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
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Global trends in health by Hans Rosling
It was 2006. Open data was still a dream and data-science wasn’t a buzzword. A visionary TED talk about eHealth, statistics and correlations between health and wealth was recorded and published. In Hans Rosling’s hands, data sings. Global trends in health and economics come to vivid life. And the big picture of global development—with some surprisingly […]
Revolution Period and other data about Trappist-1 system
Comparison of the TRAPPIST-1 system with the inner Solar System and the Galilean Moons of Jupiter Light curve of TRAPPIST-1 — showing the dimming events caused by transits of planets Light curves of the seven TRAPPIST-1 planets as they transit. P is the period in days. Artist’s illustrations of planets in TRAPPIST-1 system and Solar […]