Recent White House appointee DJ Patil will lead up the big data plans that will be central to Obama’s Precision Medicine Initiative.
But who is the guy?
Yahoo News put together a florid profile that’ll give you a good idea about who our new Chief Data Scientist is. Hint: He keeps a skateboard at the White House. It’s how he gets to work – at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. – when it’s nice out. Yahoo News paints Patil as a quirky, eminently Silicon Valley character: His office walls are whimsical – decorated with Pikachu memorabilia, for instance – but he’s one of the government’s key players in expanding its data plans. And healthcare is one of his main priorities.
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