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Using Palantir to Explore Prescription Drug Safety

Drug safety is a serious concern in the United States with adverse drug events contributing to over 770,000 injuries and deaths per year. Cost estimates range from $1.5 to $5.6 billion annually. The FDA closely monitors these adverse events and releases communications and advisories depending on the severity and frequency of the events. The FDA [...]

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Haiti: effective recovery through analysis

Visualizing SMS hotspots in days following the earthquake in Palantir. Screenshot courtesy of Palantir Technologies [Editor's Note: an edited version of this post first appeared on O'Reilly's Radar blog.] The prologue was an earthquake of unexpected magnitude and location that left 250,000 dead. As computer scientists and technologists, we’re used to dealing with large numbers [...]

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Investigating an E. Coli Outbreak

This video shows how public health analysts could use Palantir to perform traceback analysis on an outbreak of an illness or infection. With the 2009-2010 flu season just beginning, it’s good time to take a look at how Palantir can be used by government health agencies in the fight to protect public health. The data [...]

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