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Data-Driven Solutions to Waste Management Challenges
Scrapp Founder Brings Engineering Rigor and a Practical Approach (Source: john / stock.adobe.com; generated with AI) Based on an interview with Mikey Pasciuto Despite numerous public service campaigns and policy improvement initiatives, meeting waste management goals remains a significant challenge. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) asserts that from 1990 to 2015, US-recycled municipal solid waste…
Q&A: A roadmap for revolutionizing health care through data-driven innovation
What if data could help predict a patient’s prognosis, streamline hospital operations, or optimize human resources in medicine? A book fresh off the shelves, “The Analytics Edge in Healthcare,” shows that this is already happening, and demonstrates how to scale it. Authored by Dimitris Bertsimas, MIT’s vice provost for open learning, along with two of Bertsimas’…