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Record W2884011204 · doi:10.14745/ccdr.v41i09a03

Big Data is changing the battle against infectious diseases

2015· article· en· W2884011204 on OpenAlexafffundvenue
Matthew G. Links

Bibliographic record

VenueCanada Communicable Disease Report · 2015
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicData-Driven Disease Surveillance
Canadian institutionsUniversity of SaskatchewanAgriculture and Agri-Food Canada
FundersCanadian Institutes of Health ResearchAgriculture and Agri-Food CanadaGovernment of Canada
KeywordsBig dataBespokeBattleMultidisciplinary approachData scienceComputer scienceInfectious disease (medical specialty)Computer securityBusinessDiseaseMedicinePolitical scienceGeographyData mining

Abstract

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Big Data has traditionally been associated with computer geeks and commercial enterprises, but it has become entrenched in many scientific disciplines including the prevention and control of infectious diseases. The use of Big Data has allowed disease trends to be identified and outbreak origins to be tracked and even predicted. Big Data is not getting smaller. The challenges we face are to hone our analytical capacity to address the huge "signal-to-noise" ratio with adequate computing power and multidisciplinary teams that can handle ever-increasing amounts of data. Big Data will also create the opportunity for future applications of bespoke (or personalized) treatment.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.004
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.295
Threshold uncertainty score0.996

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.004
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.002
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.080
GPT teacher head0.294
Teacher spread0.214 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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