The new EXTREEMS interdisciplinary approach at the College of William and Mary will allow undergraduate mathematics majors to gain experience in manipulating data across other discipline.
PSC to Build Data Exacell, a Next-Gen System for Integrated Data Storage and Analytics
October 21, 2013 by Leave a Comment
With a new NSF grant, the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center will develop a prototype Data Exacell, a next-gen system for storing, handling and analyzing vast amounts of data.
Managing Big Data From Space
October 19, 2013 by Leave a Comment
NASA and its dozens of missions gather hundreds of terabytes of data every hour. Data pour in every day like rushing rivers. Spacecraft monitor everything from our home planet to faraway galaxies, beaming back images and information to Earth. All those digital records need to be stored, indexed and processed so that spacecraft engineers, scientists and […]
Scientific Big Data Access Soon to Get Bigger
October 18, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Scientists receiving federal funds will soon have to include plans for the public access of much of their raw data. This new requirement was spelled out earlier this year in a memo from the executive branch’s Office of Science and Technology Policy. Once there is an official statement, scientists applying for federal grants will likely […]
University of Ulster to Develop Big Data Research Centre in Belfast
October 14, 2013 by Leave a Comment
The University of Ulster is partnering with QUB and the NI Statistics and Research Agency to set up the Northern Ireland Administrative Data Research Centre, a new £7 million research centre opening in Belfast.
The Internet of Things and Big Data
October 8, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Looking into the future, we expect everything we own to be connected to the Internet. Thus, the term Internet of Things (IoT) which was officially born in 2009, when the number of connected devices exceeded the number of world population.
New Kaggle Competition: Dogs vs. Cats
October 3, 2013 by Leave a Comment
The machine learning competition platform Kaggle has just launched a new challenge for data scientists: develop an algorithm to distinguish images of Dogs vs. Cats. It turns out that humans, dogs and cats have no problem with this classification task, but computers find it more difficult. This fun contest runs until Feb. 1, 2014 and […]
Building Library Recommendations with Big Data Graph Analysis
September 29, 2013 by Leave a Comment
University Libraries are looking to improve their recommendation systems based on the very same graph search technologies employed by companies like Amazon.
Applying Machine Learning Approaches to Problems in Social Science
September 24, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Alice Oh from Harvard CRCS and the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology shares the experiences and challenges of her research group in applying probabilistic topic models (e.g., LDA,HDP) and other machine learning algorithms to problems in social science.
The Sexiness of Big Data and Big Data Analytics
September 21, 2013 by Leave a Comment
This lecture outlines a multidisciplinary program including quantitative analysis, business information systems, database programming and business. Together, these equip you with the tools to derive valuable insights from big data sources.
