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Big Data: An Opportunity for Data Scientists & Data Analysts

Tom Spencer

“Data is a precious thing and will last longer than the systems themselves”, Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web. Data science is made possible by machine learning and artificial intelligence, which use advanced computer systems that can adapt and learn from data without prompts or explicit instructions. Required Skills.

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Expect the "Practically Virtually Impossible"

MishTalk

The collapse of Spanish housing left the banking system with as much as 51 billion euros of deferred tax assets(DTAs), mostly from 2011, that can be used against future profits for as long as 18 years. I suspect we will not have to wait until 2029 for the "practically virtually impossible" to happen.

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5 Ways U.S. Hospitals Can Respond to Medicare’s Mounting Costs

Harvard Business

As aging baby boomers continue to join the program, Medicare enrollment will rise at 3% a year until the end of the decade in 2029, and 2.4% If hospitals do not aggressively manage the cost of caring for Medicare patients against these fixed payments, losses result. a year in the decade after. By 2030, there will be 81.5

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What Has the Eurozone Learned from the Financial Crisis?

Harvard Business

economy are asking whether we learned enough from the 2008 crisis about how to manage risk in the financial system. The Euro area is asking a very different question: whether we have learned enough about monetary and fiscal policy to better manage the next crisis. Ten years after the crisis, observers of the U.S.

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How Health Care Providers Can Ensure Patients’ End-of-Life Wishes Are Known

Harvard Business

The physician attending to him did not have access to the details of Mr. M’s medical history or end-of life-wishes, since his hospital and primary care physician had different electronic medical record (EMR) systems. Indeed, the Medicare Hospital Insurance (Part A) trust fund is projected to be depleted by 2029.