Handling the Data Explosion

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Handling the Data Explosion

• Wesley D. Turner, Ph.D
• General Electric Global Research

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Handling the Data Explosion

• Software is Necessary
• Open Source, leveraging the community
• Data Drives Development

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Software is Necessary
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Open Source, Leveraging the Community

• Toolkit of public algorithms
• Community committed to testing/maintaining base
• Experts encouraged to add their own algorithms
• Liberal licensing allows commercialization
• Differentiation allowed

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Data Drives Development

• Data availability lags scanners
• Proprietary databases take time and resources
• Diversity in protocol required for robust
  algorithms
• How do we compare ground truth?
• Need Open Source data