A data-driven analytics approach in the study of pneumonia’s fatalities

As huge amounts of data become available in organizations and society, specific data analytics skills and techniques are needed to explore this data and extract from it useful patterns, tendencies, models or other useful knowledge, which could be used to support the decision-making process, to defin...

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Main Author: Santos, Maribel Yasmina (author)
Other Authors: Carvalheira, António (author), Araújo, Artur Teles de (author)
Format: conferencePaper
Language:eng
Published: 2015
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1822/38191
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt:1822/38191
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Summary:As huge amounts of data become available in organizations and society, specific data analytics skills and techniques are needed to explore this data and extract from it useful patterns, tendencies, models or other useful knowledge, which could be used to support the decision-making process, to define new strategies or to understand what is happening in a specific field. Only with a deep understanding of a phenomenon it is possible to fight it. In this paper, a data-driven analytics approach is used for the analysis of the increasing incidence of fatalities by pneumonia in the Portuguese population, characterizing the disease and its incidence in terms of fatalities, knowledge that can be used to define appropriate strategies that can aim to reduce this phenomenon, which has increased more than 65% in a decade.