The key to being able to innovate, improve and streamline your processes often lies in gaining as many insights as you can from a variety data sources scattered throughout your operations. Making sense of all that data can be difficult. But it's not an impossible dream.
Could data analytics aid in the diagnosis of severe neurological diseases? In a recent study, a research group at Umeå University has conducted statistical data analysis of biomarkers from patients suffering from Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease) and Parkinson’s disease to investigate whether data analytics could help in the diagnosis of – and help distinguish between – the two diseases.
Mining information in unstructured text can be a real challenge. Patent documents, for example, provide a rich source of technological and scientific knowledge that can reveal technological trends as well as information on the legal landscape of the market. This makes analysis of the vast and ever-growing number of patents an important part of corporate business strategies.
On the west coast of southern Sweden, facing the expanse of the ocean, is the beautiful city of Gothenburg. Surrounded by a string of islands, this city has been the home for sailors and merchants, seafaring and shipping, since ancient times. One of the islands to the north of Gothenburg is the picturesque island of Tjörn. Once every year, Tjörn is the location for one of the most famous sailing races in Sweden – “Tjörn Runt” or “Around Tjörn”.
In life science, biopharma and other areas of research, development and production, design of experiments (DOE) provides a systematic method to determine cause and effect relationships between factors and responses affecting a process, product or analytical system. But the key to understanding your results is effective analysis of your experimental data.
