“Making sense out of big data is a challenge, particularly in the healthcare industry where information comes from a variety of sources and in different forms, including structured, unstructured, images, temporal, geo-location and signal data”
Big data visualization tools are great for graphing past data to see patterns and trends, but future trends is a tougher nut to crack, since past performance is often no indicator of future actions.
http://www.networkworld.com/article/3212746/storage/tapping-big-data-to-predict-the-future.html
