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01-02-2017 | Commentary (INVITED)

Invited Commentary on Stewart and Davis “ ‘Big data’ in mental health research—current status and emerging possibilities”

Authors: Jonathan D. Hafferty, Daniel J. Smith, Andrew M. McIntosh

Published in: Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology | Issue 2/2017

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Recent years have witnessed a revolution in data science and ‘big data’ into which psychiatric research has also being drawn. ‘Big data’ has been defined as data sets which are so large in size, so fast to change, and so complex in structure that traditional data processing techniques are overwhelmed [1]. The mining and exploitation of such big data resources as Electronic Healthcare Records (EHRs) present an exciting challenge to the field of psychiatric epidemiology. The number of big data projects within psychiatric research is growing, and Stewart and Davis’s literature review is, therefore, timely [2]. …

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Title: Invited Commentary on Stewart and Davis “ ‘Big data’ in mental health research—current status and emerging possibilities”
Authors: Jonathan D. Hafferty
Daniel J. Smith
Andrew M. McIntosh
Publication date: 01-02-2017
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in: Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology / Issue 2/2017
Print ISSN: 0933-7954
Electronic ISSN: 1433-9285
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00127-016-1294-4

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