From the course: The Data Science of Healthcare, Medicine, and Public Health
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Genetic data and healthcare
From the course: The Data Science of Healthcare, Medicine, and Public Health
Genetic data and healthcare
- [Instructor] I've made an entire course here at LinkedIn Learning to explain that, while use of the term big data may have peaked in, oh, 2014, it's not that the term big data is now obsolete or passe. Rather, in many fields, it's now normal data. It has become the expected reality of so many data projects. Now, you may recall one common definition of big data, which says that it refers to data that has extraordinary volume, that's a lot of data, and velocity, means it comes in very quickly, and variety, which means it doesn't fit well into the rows and columns of a spreadsheet or relational database. Take 'em together and you get big data. Well, when it comes to data science and health, that describes genetic data perfectly. Now, at one level, DNA is really simple. As everybody knows, you have four bases, adenine, cytosine, guanine, and thymine. Those are the A, C, G, and T that make up DNA, and then you take 'em and you…
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