While this may sound like a plot for an Avengers movie, it's actually a real-life, real-world problem that billionaire philanthropist Mike Bloomberg wants fixed. This is not a Big Data or even a Little Data problem. Birth and death data are known as vital statistics for a reason. But if investors have a buffet, many parts of public health by comparison have cups of potato chip fragments. Kelly Henning, MD, who has led the Bloomberg Philanthropies Public Health program since it began in 2007, said that "this initiative made a lot of sense to Mike Bloomberg.

Source: Forbes May 15, 2018 12:35 UTC