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Takes ~1M adverse-event reports, expands them into ~360M patient–drug–drug buckets, and analyzes them with gamma Poisson shrinkage estimator to score interaction confidence. Data ingestion runs on Hadoop/MapReduce, using 20 map-reduce jobs and then explores results in R and renders graphs with Gephi. Visualization surfaces expected clusters (HIV, breast/prostate cancer) and surprising cross-cluster links — e.g., a blood thinner connecting via loxanine to takapron — suggesting metabolic pathways worth biological follow-up.
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chapters (5)
- 0:00Understanding adverse events
- 1:04Challenges in data analysis
- 2:00Big data methodology
- 3:08Visualizing drug interactions
- 4:40Implications and conclusion
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