IDG Contributor Network: Microsoft’s big data-like study on sleep proves what doctors already know

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We hear it from doctors, both allopathic and holistic, all the time: people don’t get enough sleep and it hurts them during the day. It even has long-term consequences. Now Microsoft is saying the same thing thanks to a big data project and some volunteers.

The researchers combed through data from 75 million keystrokes and clicks on Microsoft’s Bing search engine made by more than 30,000 volunteers wearing a Microsoft Band, which records bodily activity, including sleep. 

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