Ari Caroline: This big-data guru mines analytics to help cancer patients [Resources_Careers]

If you're going to design software or digest analytics for Ari Caroline, it helps to not be squeamish. When Caroline hires new computer scientists or software engineers, he likes to send them off to watch surgery. He believes there is no better way for recruits to grasp the real-life impact that data-driven decisions can wield at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. The hospital treats more than 130,000 patients a year and is the largest cancer treatment center in the northeastern United States.