Telling the bigger story

 Well, maybe this is not yet "telling" the story, but it is a chance--a huge chance--to create a very large story.   We have been invited to participate in a pan-European bid for Next-Gen Internet capabilities, and we're immersed in preparing two bids for possible grants.

The first proposal is to expand the dataset that we built several years ago, for COVID-19 cases and deaths, along with per capita calculations of same, for 1,024 days for 3,141 USA counties and 196 countries.  

How might you expand that?  Well, some would like to have ethnic and age data, others would like vaccine rates and pre-existing conditions, etc.   That's for the data already gathered.   But what about equivalent data for other countries where today all we have are macro-data for the entire nations.

And, if you can get that, how about other 'pandemic-like' diseases (e.g. flu, colds, SARs).  But then immediately medical folk say, "that's all well and good, but what about many chronic diseases?  Diabetes, COPD, heart attacks, lung cancer, and many others have major findings related to geospatial mapping, and each would be good to work with.  Granted the data is not as dynamic as COVID data was for the early days, but what a treasure trove.

So, we're imagining putting a proposal together to build a Global Virtual Health Center or Observatory, hopefully to build something useful for the world's underpaid, underresourced Health Community.

We'll keep you posted, but we WELCOME your input.

Telling the story

 Well, interesting--Brian Berg and the Asilomar committee (this is the long-standing, e.g. 50th anniversary) microprocessor workshop) are granting me a ten-minute slot in the RATS section tonight.  My theme--"A Picture--Really worth 1,000 words?" is buttressed by a video tape with lots of URL's to other video clips, and it uses both the COPD and the COVID stories as the backdrop for why we've done so much with Virtual Multi-Display environments.  Here's the link for your viewing enjoyment

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UldbgcTl8Pg

This is actually a great opportunity.  The AMW workshop is one of the more prestigious events in our industry.  Today's technical talks were amazing--quantum computing made 'clear' and the incredible power hogging of the data centers and what a speciific Nvidia chip burns.   Most cities cannot host a data center of the Google size, and Google cannot hardly cool these systems enough to keep them running.  

I heard a definition of "Big Data" being done for one cancer study-- they had to 'reconfigure' Excel, from 1 million cells to i trillion cells--howze that again?   10 to the 6th, vs 10 to the 12th.   A mere 23 Million rows and 55,000 columns, easily and quickly scanned, according to the speaker!

So what we are showing is a quick overview of AVI capabilities, starting with the focus on what a picture can tell you, especially if using math tools such as Conformal Mapping and Convolution Integrals, not to mentioin AI Deep Dives.   And then, we show comparative pictures for "why multiple pix at once" and then we show the 3D aspects of walking through our environments (with accompanying companions from anywhere), getting to an interactive screen, scanning it and selecting from it to engage a stored video for that person, etc.

Quite the opportunituy!

Chuck