Scenes from our Cosmos Datathon
In a few short hours after learning the tools, our researchers were asking innovative questions and cranking out quick-win first draft answers that can easily expand into full fledged investigations.
So cool.
I am grateful to smart collaborators:
- Brian Montague, system physician informaticist at UCHealth for planning and hosting this Cosmos Datathon, where over 60 faculty and scientists came to learn about and explore the Cosmos database and tools.
- Our Epic Wisconsin colleagues who came for an immersion visit to round with our Transplant and other clinical teams
- Our UCHealth Epic IT and operational teams for working to install the hooks necessary to contribute to and draw knowledge from Cosmos.
- Our scientist colleagues who came to learn, practice and grow skills at exploring this data
- Epic Systems for dreaming up and constructing a de-identified repository where we can safely and securely ask big questions, test our theories, and push forward the boundaries of knowledge of human illness and wellness.
And I am grateful to the Beatles for the original Helter Skelter. A boy band out of Liverpool, who blew apart convention to invent the heavy metal genre.
I like to think this blog is a heavy metal breakthrough as well! (jk)
