Tuesday, May 24, 2011

New Roper Dataset: Quality of Health Care

The Roper Center Public Opinion Archives recently released a new dataset of public opinion about the quality of health care including such issues as the value of health care versus cost and the quality of care among local hospitals.

To review an abstract and download data go to:
Harvard School of Public Health/Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Poll: Quality of Health Care [USICR2011-HEALTH]

Restricted to Boston College community only.

Questions? Contact: Barbara Mento

Monday, May 23, 2011

New McKinsey Research Report: Big Data: The Next Frontier for Innovation, Competition, and Productivity

Big Data: The Next Frontier for Innovation, Competition, and Productivity

"Analyzing large data sets—so called big data—will become a key basis of competition, underpinning new waves of productivity growth, innovation, and consumer surplus as long as the right policies and enablers are in place."

New York Time article about the report