Links M G
Saskatoon Research Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Saskatoon, SK.
Department of Computer Science, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK.
Can Commun Dis Rep. 2015 Sep 3;41(9):215-217. doi: 10.14745/ccdr.v41i09a03.
Big Data has traditionally been associated with computer geeks and commercial enterprises, but it has become entrenched in many scientific disciplines including the prevention and control of infectious diseases. The use of Big Data has allowed disease trends to be identified and outbreak origins to be tracked and even predicted. Big Data is not getting smaller. The challenges we face are to hone our analytical capacity to address the huge "signal-to-noise" ratio with adequate computing power and multidisciplinary teams that can handle ever-increasing amounts of data. Big Data will also create the opportunity for future applications of (or personalized) treatment.
传统上，大数据一直与计算机怪才和商业企业联系在一起，但它已在包括传染病防控在内的许多科学学科中根深蒂固。大数据的使用使疾病趋势得以识别，疫情源头得以追踪甚至预测。大数据并没有变小。我们面临的挑战是提高我们的分析能力，以足够的计算能力和能够处理不断增加的数据量的多学科团队来应对巨大的“信噪比”。大数据还将为未来的（或个性化）治疗应用创造机会。
