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How Crunching Big Data Could Save Our Lives

By & Posey Gruener • Jan 28, 2014
  • Daniela Witten, assistant professor of biostatistics at the University of Washington.
    Daniela Witten, assistant professor of biostatistics at the University of Washington.
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Marcie Sillman speaks with Daniela Witten, assistant professor of biostatistics at the University of Washington, about why she is teaching machines to read the data inside human bodies. 

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