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Lecture 2 Fundamentals of Data, Information, and Knowledge

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would be aware of the types and categories of different datasets in biomedical informatics.

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    Refer to: http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html.

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    Institute of Medicine, http.//iom.edu.

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    In Einstein’s theory of Special Relativity, Euclidean 3-space plus time (the “4th-dimension”) are unified into the Minkowski space.

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