BrandPost: Distributed analytics meets distributed data

Distributed analytics meets distributed data
By Patricia Florissi, Ph.D.To illustrate the power of the concept of distributed, yet collaborative, analytics in-place at worldwide scale, it sometimes helps to begin with an example. In this case, I will start with an example from the healthcare industry, and then dive down into discussion of the World Wide Herd (WWH), a global virtual computing cluster.Hospitals around the world are moving to value-based healthcare and achieving dramatic reductions