Ayasdi's Iris Insight Discovery Platform

Screenshot of Ayasdi's Iris Insight Discovery platform

     Ayasdi, a data visualization software company, has recently launched their new product is called the Iris Insight Discovery platform. Using algebraic topology, this software is able to mine various connections between data points in order to develop a network of patterns that a researcher can easily decipher.
     It is thought that Ayasdi could use this software for insights in the healthcare industry; according to the article, Ayasdi's has previously developed software that can reduce the time of mining through data from 100 plus hours to 8 hours. Furthermore, Derrick Harris of Gigaom has witnessed datasets from 272 cancer patients involving 25,000 genetic markers be analyzed and visualized within seconds. Harris referred to one cluster in the visualization that could represent cancer survivors, saying “as researchers dig into this area further, they might find, for example, that none of these survivors underwent chemotherapy and all share a rare genetic that might make them particularly well suited to fight off cancer cells.” Therefore, discoveries like this as stated in the article can lead to the reduction of time spent for new drug trials to go from the lab, to the clinical trials, and then to the public. Check it out!