Learning Notebook - David Rostcheck
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Microsoft’s advanced data analysis capabilities are being applied to Merck’s therapeutic sciences to improve patient care. For example, every year pharmaceutical companies are forced to discard inventory such as flu vaccines due to temperature fluctuations or, in industry terminology, excursions. In order to preserve the potency of vaccines, proper temperatures must be maintained throughout storage, handling, and shipping. Special thermal-protection containers equipped with temperature-recording sensors are used to transport these vaccines. This temperature-controlled supply route is known as the cold chain. Microsoft R Server for Hadoop is now being used to analyze the various factors that affect the cold chain such as origin, destination, shipment route, external weather, and logistics providers. This analysis provides invaluable data that subsequently identifies variations that contribute to temperature excursions in order to mitigate them. This in turn preserves the vaccines that save the lives of countless people every year.
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