FDA Hacked | When Is a Database Nothing More than a Digital Filing Cabinet? (Part 2)
We start Part 2 of “When is a Database nothing more than a digital filing cabinet?” where we left off in Part 1. According to Wikipedia, “a database is an organized collection of data.” If we truly embrace this definition of data, then we can completely redefine the issues...
FDA Hacked | When Is a Database Nothing More than a Digital Filing Cabinet? (Part 1)
The title of this post is a well worn meme for CLOUD, but the recent hacking of the FDA’s systems forces yet another revisiting of the topic. Rather than asking lawmakers for the FDA to launch a third-party audit of its recent breach, “FDA Hacked, Drugmakers Want Proof that...
A View from the CLOUD: “Sure, Big Data is Great. But So is Intuition.”
This View from the CLOUD was originally sparked by a much appreciated spot by Liza Bernstein and Susannah Fox’s kind invitation to make a comment at her blog, based on the original article, “Sure, Big Data is Great. But So is Intuition,” by Steve Lohr in the New York...