Data Warehouse Offers Priceless Insights, University-Wide Access
Mar 13, 2017
Could friendship be making Americans fat?
That was the question Harvard researchers tried to answer in 2007 as they reviewed the data trails of some 12,000 people. Their conclusion: Having an obese friend increases the risk of a person being obese by 57 percent.
Ten years later, Daniel Abrams, engineering sciences and applied mathematics, is exploring how American obesity might have changed in a cohort 100 times larger. The million-person data pool is thought to be the most expansive look yet at the affect a person’s social world has on their weight. The research project is one made possible by an exceptional Core Facility — Northwestern Medicine’s renowned Enterprise Data Warehouse (NMEDW)...