Ouch: conversation got dragged away by wild oxen. Back to Grace Hopper: What I lived most about the first presentation was her questions about “Valuing Inform

Ouch: conversation got dragged away by wild oxen. Back to Grace Hopper: What I lived most about the first presentation was her questions about “Valuing Information” and getting nothing but blank stares whenever she asked this question. This is also a huge missed research domain in biomedical research. For me the vale of information (data utility) is a function of data connectivity potential. If I have one vector of data that connects to 1000 other vectors of data then that vector has much greater utility (all else equal) than onr vector that only connects on one other vector. The first vector is “smart” data that leads to valuable information, the second vector is “mute” data—just barely information at all. Link on this general topic hat I hope GH would have enjoyed as much as I did her luminous and funny talk: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2751652/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2751652/