BERKELEY It was standing room only in Sutardja Dai Hall’s Banatao Auditorium, with many more watching monitors in the overflow section, at Thursday’s high-energy launch of the Berkeley Institute for Data Science.On hand to celebrate (left to right): Vice Chancellor for Research Graham Fleming, Moore Foundation’s Vicki Chandler, Chancellor Dirks and BIDS director Saul Perlmutter (Peg Skorpinski photo)Right […]
Nathan E. Wineinger, Ph.D., a research scientist at Scripps Genomic Medicine discusses how mhealth data is moving towards big data at a rapid pace at the recent BigData@UCSD workshop last month. Mobile health (mHealth) technologies allow for the generation of intensive care unit medical information, literally, in the palm of your hand. A smart phone can be transformed into a mobile […]
“’Big data’ is characterized not only by large quantities of data, but by interrelated, interconnected and sometimes self-referential data,” explained Will Green, a graduate student in the University of Virginia’s School of Architecture.With such far-reaching scope, it comes as little surprise that he and fellow architecture students are working with biomedical engineering students to create a way to visualize large […]
Zander posted this NY Times opinion piece to usv.com yesterday and it’s been rattling around in my head since then. The author suggests that big data is coming to health care and bringing with it many issues that will have to be resolved. I am sure that is so. But I also think the intersection of big data and health […]
Large Networks, Big Data, And Healthcare
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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 […]
Like urban bike-sharing programs everywhere, Chicago’s Divvy must contend with a key problem: due to commuting patterns, some bike stations empty out fast while others fill up quickly, leaving no space for more drop-offs.But such urban problems can be addressed with socially minded computer science, as a group of 50 Chicago high school students learned recently during a daylong conference […]
By Aaron KrolNovember 26, 2013 | Since joining the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation in 2008, Chris Mentzel has wanted to spur investment in the cause of data science in the American university system. The Moore Foundation is committed to fostering the earliest, most speculative stages of scientific research, the sort of pushing at the barriers of knowledge that is more […]
Tuesday, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) in collaboration with the Networking and Information Technology R&D (NITRD) program hosted Data to Knowledge to Action: Building New Partnerships. The event was a progress report of sorts on the Obama Administration’s “Big Data Research and Development Initiative” announced in 2012.OSTP Director John Holdren opened the event stressing the […]
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 […]
