More from KUOW Health How Crunching Big Data Could Save Our Lives KUOW | By Marcie Sillman Published January 28, 2014 at 3:11 PM AKST Twitter LinkedIn Email Listen • 8:01 Courtesy of Daniela Witten Daniela Witten, assistant professor of biostatistics at the University of Washington. 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.