The amount of raw data in the world is expanding exponentially. Not just words and numbers in databases, but YouTube videos, MP3 audio files and metadata—data about the data itself. The world’s data pile has now reached the zettabyte scale (trillions of gigabytes), and there are no signs of stopping.The challenge for researchers and the world isn’t simply finding a […]
Mark Daley, Daley is Associate Professor & SHARCNET Research Chair at Western UniversityBy Mark DaleyThe tools and methodologies of “Big Data” provide us with new – necessarily automated – ways to boil down vast quantities of data into a form that is easier to digest. Critical tools include algorithms for dimensionality reduction, machine learning and large-scale visualization.Beyond Big Data, many […]
BERKELEY In a world awash in data, UC Berkeley is meeting the flood head-on by establishing a new institute to support faculty, researchers and students in their efforts to mine this information in areas as diverse as astronomy and economics, genetics and demography.Berkeley Nobelist Saul Perlmutter describes the new Berkeley Institute for Data Science at a Nov. 12 […]
The University of Washington is one of three schools across the country sharing a major grant to spread ”big data” analysis skills beyond computer science and apply them to other fields.The UW’s share of the five-year, $38 million grant will build up the school’s eScience Institute and Center for Statistics and Social Sciences. It is funding five data scientists, four postdoctoral data […]
The hotly anticipated stock-market debut of Twitter exceeded expectations on Thursday when a stampede for shares sent the company’s value to more than $24bn – an extraordinary debut for a company that has never made a profit, and whose launch had already been the subject of considerable hype.The company set a share price of $26 on Tuesday but fierce bidding […]
” webReader=”97.3686471009″>Federal Trade Commissioner Julie Brill has a big job with big implications for businesses and consumers alike. Her mission—to ensure that the U.S. economy operates with vigorous competition among producers, yet gives consumers access to accurate information–now even more vital in an era of Big Data.Addressing the audience at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University (NYU-Poly) Third Sloan […]
Chapel Hill, NC – A new collaboration called the National Consortium for Data Science (NCDS) aims to make North Carolina a national hub for data-intensive business and data science research and education, a move that will help develop a national strategy to ensure U.S. leadership in the data-driven global economy.The consortium, launched at RENCI, the Renaissance Computing Institute at the […]
