Hands-On Data Science with R
by Doug Ortiz, Vitor Bianchi Lanzetta, Nataraj Dasgupta, Ricardo Anjoleto Farias
Healthcare
Healthcare and related fields such as pharmaceuticals and life sciences, have also seen a gradual rise in the adoption and use of machine learning. A leading example has been IBM Watson. Developed in late 2000s, IBM Watson rose to popularity after it won the Double Jeopardy, a popular quiz contest in the US in 2011. Today, IBM Watson is being used for clinical research and several institutions have published preliminary results of success. (Source: http://www.ascopost.com/issues/june-25-2017/how-watson-for-oncology-is-advancing-personalized-patient-care/). The primary impediment to wider adoption has been the extremely high cost of using the system with usually an uncertain return on investment. Companies that are generally well ...
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