Hormesis Podcast #7 - Big Data: Headbutt your way into medicine...

In this episode Sean and Nick lead our discussion of Big Data as it relates to Radiation Oncology medical physics. The discussion ranges from reasons to buy in, how we are starting to do it, and how we can proceed as a field in light of big data analytics.

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