Role of Big Data in Education & Healthcare

Big data is the new age information boom that helps to analyze in advance – major futuristic trends in a particular industry. The application of Big Data can be seen in major corporations across all the sectors of the world economy, be it state-funded projects or smaller tech conglomerates.
The huge volume of data that is being stored and transferred owing to huge technological changes- technology infrastructure growth and network connectivity has benefited organizations in public and private domain to analyze marketing trends.
Organizations are finding it convenient to drive their business goals from the voluminous data that they can get their hands on. The newer developments in Artificial General Intelligence helps organizations to transform the data into smart projects that leverage the growth of their consumer market. Since machines are making a lot of decisions for us humans, we should be precarious in dealing with exploitation of Big Data with the help of AI. This becomes a case for businesses to overview from time to time so that business ethics are not exploited.
Let’s begin on how Big Data will transform major sectors.
Big Data in Education Sector
With lots of detailed information on students, faculties, programs, and educational institutes, the education sector is flooding with information, and a proper analysis of this data can provide insights that can help in improving the aim of the education sector and its effectiveness.
Big Data will motivate certain highlighted changes in the education industry. Some of these are:
  • Dynamic and custom made learning programs.
  • From a learner’s history of academics, data scientists can deduce a  way which will be useful in counseling the learner through a particular field, most likely to be matching with his area of interest.
  • Carving the syllabus for a course
  • Real-time monitoring of learning pattern, as to what time is being consumed and the extent of focus required can help data scientists to tailor make a syllabus for a set of learners according to their capabilities and other external requirements.
  • Marks and Rewards
  • Big Data can bring about a change in how marking is done. For eg., it could bring more transparency and better invigilating results.
  • Big Data can help decide your career
  • An analysis of past student’s records may point out the areas of his/her weakness, strengths, and interests. These insights may help in matching his skill set with the required skill set of different job profiles and ultimately filter the best job prospect for the learner.
  • For eg., The University of Alabama has incorporated analytics and data visualization tools to improve the overall academic experience of learners.
Big Data in Healthcare industry
A million digital scripts record and decode sophisticated data related to the human body daily. Big Data scientists use the information to come to fruitful conclusions which in turn increases the operational effectiveness.
  • By performing only the required diagnosis, Big Data helps patients save money.
  • Big Data can help in the prediction of any misfortunate epidemic, in particular,  by taking informatics on health, food, environment, and other factors. The prediction may gear medical authorities in advance to minimize the effects of the same.
  • Big Data helps in picking up the symptoms of a life-threatening disease at an early stage for effective diagnosis.
  • Big Data research can prevent dangerous ailments by giving evidence-based medicines in advance to the person.
 Example: A lot of wearable devices provide data related to a person’s daily body functions. Apple, for instance, launched its Apple Watch which works with advanced applications like Apple HealthKit, CareKit, and research it to provide useful data like heart rate, blood pressure, body temperature, calorie level, which in turn provides emergency notifications when an abnormal bodily function is detected.
Sam John is a self-professed security expert; he has been making the people aware of the security threats. His passion is to write about Cyber security, cryptography, malware, social engineering, internet and new media. He writes for McAfee security products at mcafee.com/activate.

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