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Code for America reduces ER calls in Long Beach using big data …

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]]>Updated at 11:56 a.m. PST to show the Long Beach project is in progress, not complete.Code for America is working on a project that uses big data to reduce emergency room calls in the California city of Long Beach.Rhys Fureigh, Molly McLeod, and Dan Getelman are the three Code for America 2014 fellows working on the Long Beach […]

QuickWire: 3 Universities Join to Make Big Data More Useful – Wired …

QuickWire: 3 Universities Join to Make Big Data More UsefulNovember 12, 2013, 5:06 pmBy Lawrence BiemillerNew York University is teaming up with the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Washington on a five-year effort to help researchers take advantage of ever-increasing amounts of information by improving both data management and data analysis. The project, slated to cost […]