Discussion Boards
1-2
Primary Task Response: Within the Discussion Board area, write 400-600 words that respond to the following questions with your thoughts, ideas, and comments. This will be the foundation for future discussions by your classmates. Be substantive and clear, and use examples to reinforce your ideas. For this assignment, answer the following:
· What theories and techniques would you recommend to be used in the diagnosis of illnesses with the use of big data analytics? Why would those be your choices?
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Unit 2
Primary Task Response: Within the Discussion Board area, write 400-600 words that respond to the following questions with your thoughts, ideas, and comments. This will be the foundation for future discussions by your classmates. Be substantive and clear, and use examples to reinforce your ideas.
For this assignment, answer the following:
· When is it beneficial for stakeholders to be involved in the data analytics life cycle? How would you determine this?
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3-1
Primary Task Response: Within the Discussion Board area, write 400-600 words that respond to the following questions with your thoughts, ideas, and comments. This will be the foundation for future discussions by your classmates. Be substantive and clear, and use examples to reinforce your ideas.
Research and explain the differences between 2 of the following NoSQL databases as used in big data analytics:
· Neo4j: Graph database
· MongoDB: Document store database
· CouchDB: Document store database
· Cassandra: Column-oriented database
· Big Table: Column-oriented database
· RIAK: Key-value store database
· Amazon DynamoDB
· db4o: Object-oriented database
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3-2
Primary Task Response: Within the Discussion Board area, write 400-600 words that respond to the following questions with your thoughts, ideas, and comments. This will be the foundation for future discussions by your classmates. Be substantive and clear, and use examples to reinforce your ideas.
For this assignment, address the following:
· Select a NoSQL database type, and explain how it is used or could be applied for health informatics data analytics.
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Unit 4
Primary Task Response: Within the Discussion Board area, write 400-600 words that respond to the following questions with your thoughts, ideas, and comments. This will be the foundation for future discussions by your classmates. Be substantive and clear, and use examples to reinforce your ideas.
For this assignment, address the following:
· Choose and discuss a big data analytics framework (environment) and relevant tools used in health care data analytics. Your discussion should also provide examples of how health care organizations have or could implement the framework.
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5-1
Primary Task Response: Within the Discussion Board area, write 400-600 words that respond to the following questions with your thoughts, ideas, and comments. This will be the foundation for future discussions by your classmates. Be substantive and clear, and use examples to reinforce your ideas.
For this assignment, address the following:
· Create the building blocks of a system for health care big data analytics, and compare the building block design to a DNA networked cluster currently used by an organization in the current market.
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5-2
Primary Task Response: Within the Discussion Board area, write 400-600 words that respond to the following questions with your thoughts, ideas, and comments. This will be the foundation for future discussions by your classmates. Be substantive and clear, and use examples to reinforce your ideas.
For this assignment, address the following:
· Explore the current state of data storage for big data. Analyze and discuss the impact of big data storage on organizational processes.
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Unit 6
Primary Task Response: Within the Discussion Board area, write 400-600 words that respond to the following questions with your thoughts, ideas, and comments. This will be the foundation for future discussions by your classmates. Be substantive and clear, and use examples to reinforce your ideas.
Explore the use of cloud computing in the health care industry and provide a case study. Ensure that your case study covers the following:
· A use case for health care data on a cloud
· Present issues related to have health care data on a cloud
· Pros and cons of health care data on a public and private cloud
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7-1
Primary Task Response: Within the Discussion Board area, write 400-600 words that respond to the following questions with your thoughts, ideas, and comments. This will be the foundation for future discussions by your classmates. Be substantive and clear, and use examples to reinforce your ideas.
For this assignment, address the following:
· Research and present a case study where big data analytics was used to detect fraudulent data in the health care industry. Discuss the case study and how big data analytics can be used to eliminate (or simply mitigate) health care fraud in the future.
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7-2
Primary Task Response: Within the Discussion Board area, write 400-600 words that respond to the following questions with your thoughts, ideas, and comments. This will be the foundation for future discussions by your classmates. Be substantive and clear, and use examples to reinforce your ideas.
Using the Library and Internet, research and discuss the role(s) of data brokers in the health care industry.
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Unit 8
Primary Task Response: Within the Discussion Board area, write 400-600 words that respond to the following questions with your thoughts, ideas, and comments. This will be the foundation for future discussions by your classmates. Be substantive and clear, and use examples to reinforce your ideas.
Share your thoughts on data privacy and governance as they relate to the health care industry. Be sure to include thoughts on privacy violations, how to avoid them, and best practices that the health care industry could adopt to avoid instances of data breach and privacy violation.
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Unit 9
Primary Task Response: Within the Discussion Board area, write 400-600 words that respond to the following questions with your thoughts, ideas, and comments. This will be the foundation for future discussions by your classmates. Be substantive and clear, and use examples to reinforce your ideas.
Using the Library and Internet, research and present a case study on how international laws impact big data analytics in the health care industry.
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10-1
Primary Task Response: Within the Discussion Board area, write 400-600 words that respond to the following questions with your thoughts, ideas, and comments. This will be the foundation for future discussions by your classmates. Be substantive and clear, and use examples to reinforce your ideas.
Using the Library and Internet, research, submit, and discuss a case study that demonstrates a need for data in motion analytics.
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10-2
Primary Task Response: Within the Discussion Board area, write 400-600 words that respond to the following questions with your thoughts, ideas, and comments. This will be the foundation for future discussions by your classmates. Be substantive and clear, and use examples to reinforce your ideas.
Reflect on what you learned regarding each of the following Course Objectives and share your plan to apply your newly found knowledge:
· Design an experiment for the application of statistical methods related to modeling and analyzing big data.
· Draw on a large body of data to form a prediction or variable comparisons within the premise of big data.
· Examine the unique domain of health informatics and explain how big data analytics contributes to the detection of fraud and the diagnosis of illness, as well as other modeling aspects related to business intelligence and predictive business processes.
· Summarize one case study in detail related to big data analytics as it relates to organizational processes and topical research.
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