Kelsey J Penney

http://www.wsj.com/articles/patients-scientists-fight-over-research-data-access-1457394712
Last semester I finished my minor by taking a class on the Biopharmaceutical industry and is something I find very interesting and controversial. This article talks about the issues dealing with making patient research data more widely available to the…[Read more]

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/hyatt-profit-falls-more-than-expected-2016-02-18

This article references a data breach that happened with Hyatt, impacting 250 hotels in 50 countries. This is one of the most widespread hotel data breaches ever, getting customer credit card information. The article then discusses the financial impact on the year…[Read more]

Out of the 8 principles in the article I believe the most important is be skeptical. Data can often look as if it is following a trend when you really dont know why the results are that way. in being skeptical you are able to take the data for its value and realize that it is was probably collected with some bias either in collection, samples or…[Read more]

One important take away from Maurice Whetstone’s talk was that data is not useful unless you know how to look at it and ask the right questions. He discussed how when he worked at Lenox he realized a huge problem in that none of their customers who were buying silver were buying silver polish. This had been in the data for months, but until he l…[Read more]

http://www.ihealthbeat.org/articles/2016/1/20/health-care-organizations-report-data-breaches-affecting-thousands

The article I found briefly discusses a few data breaches within healthcare organizations. Two of the breaches stemmed from employees stealing data, either by emailing it to themselves or taking a tablet with spreadsheets of patient…[Read more]

A common conventional wisdom that people believe is that if you want to lose weight you should do a lot of cardio. However, it is true that high intensity intervals are better for weight loss. This theory could be tested by getting a simple random sample of people and splitting them into two groups and have them all on the same diet with one group…[Read more]