Guest talk on Big Data was held on 4th of December, 2017 at the premises of Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Sri Jayewardenepura from 9.00am to 10.30am. Guest speaker for the event, Dr. Sudha Ram conducted his speech under the topic “Using Big Data for Predictive Analytics in Healthcare”. Though the concept of Big Data is relatively new, it has already started changing the world.
What is Big Data? It is an evolving term that describes large volume of structured, semi structured & unstructured data which has the potential to be mined for information. This information in return can provide insights that leads to better decision making & strategic business moves. Simply put, it’s a way to solve the problems that were deem too impossible to solve until recently.
In this day and age, Health Care has become a basic necessity. With billions of people living around the world, we have huge amounts of data coming in daily on Health care. What could Big data do to help?
Health Care been an ever growing industry, Big data can provide health care number of potential applications for predictive analytics. Dr. Sudha Ram’s guest talk covered these areas thoroughly while providing the students knowledge on something new and exciting.
The guest talk was organized in collaboration with the Information Systems Research Group, Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Applied Sciences, University of Sri Jayewardenepura and Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Sri Jayewardenepura.
Article By
Amith Pathiraja
Faculty of Applied Sciences,
University of Sri Jayewardenepura.