title: What Can Big Data Tell Us About Health?: Finding Gold Through Data Mining.
abstract: "It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data," said Sherlock Holmes creator and author Arthur Conan Doyle in 1887. In this era of big data, and especially the crush of medical information becoming available through new technologies and bulging databases, Doyle's quote could be updated to: "It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data and understands what they mean."
authors.forename: Leslie
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Mertz
mesh_terms: D035843:Biomedical Research; D057225:Data Mining; D016208:Databases, Factual; D006801:Humans; D010363:Pattern Recognition, Automated