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Big Data and Wellness Brenda Dietrich, Ph.D. IBM Fellow and VP Emerging Technologies Watson

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Mobile Social

Cloud

Analytics

The Information Technology Mega Trends

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High value opportunities emerge in data

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Descriptive

Prescriptive

Predictive

Cognitive

What has happened?

What could happen?

How to achieve the best outcome?

How can we learn dynamically?

Big Data & Analytics

Information Layer How is data managed and stored?

How can everyone be more right … more

often?

Cognitive systems extend analytics

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Decision Maker Decision Maker

Search Engine Finds Documents Containing Keywords

Delivers Documents Based on Popularity

Has Question

Distills to 2-3 Keywords

Reads Documents, Finds Answers

Finds & Analyzes Evidence

Watson Understands Question

Produces Possible Answers & Evidence

Delivers Response, Evidence & Confidence

Analyzes Evidence, Computes Confidence

Asks NL Question

Considers Answer & Evidence

Decision Maker

Informed decision making: Search vs. Question Answering

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Chosen Solution

Optimal Trade-offs

Feasible Solutions

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Decision Made

Visualization to guide the decision makers toward the best personal choice

Feasible Alternatives Optimal Alternatives

Infeasible Alternatives Beyond Q&A: Getting from SEARCH to CHOICE

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A physician can compare, together with the patient, the alternatives according to several attributes such as: –Percentage of success (maximize) –Duration of effectiveness (maximize) –Planned treatment duration (minimize) –Level of adverse effects (minimize)

Example: Communicating and comparing treatment alternatives

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Visualize the treatment alternatives

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Filter according to availability or patient preferences

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Exploring the treatment options

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Show tradeoffs between preferred options

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Social Behavior

Values

Needs Analysis

Psycho-Profile of Individuals

Individual’s network potential

Multi-dimensional “people analytics”

Hypothesis: linguistic profiles matter in extended interpersonal interactions Is there evidence that some profile parings of patient and caregiver result in better patient compliance? Nutrition Rehabilitation Eldercare

Beyond Q&A: Individual Modeling though word choice

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Example of a User-Profile

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Generates and evaluates hypotheses

Understands natural language

Adapts and learns

Cognitive Computing

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