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I worked with a couple of the Insight Data Fellows mentioned in this blog post, on the UCSF Health eHeart study. Mike Klein (Fitbit data to predict heart failure) and Yancheng Liu (Apple Watch data to predict atrial fibrillation) both did a fantastic job!

If anybody here has questions about the program or the projects, happy to give the "customer's" point of view on what it's like to work with Insight.

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A bit late but can you tell me how exactly walking patterns change when you are about to have heart attack? I think it is all meaningless without a described mechanism that can be tested in a scientific way. Big data analyses are nice to aid in hypothesis generation but until a testable mechanism behind the observation is described, to me the "mechanism" is just as likely to be over fitting as real. The FDA also wants mechanistic explanations before approving applications.

When looking at enough parameters, there are always parameter subsets that nicely match the phenomenon you are looking for. Whether that is a heart attack or a running nose.