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Presidential research initiative promotes big thinking in data-driven science

AMES, Iowa – The third round of funding from an Iowa State University presidential initiative will build four research teams that will use big data to benefit human and animal health, improve cities ...

Longevity science is on the cusp of major breakthroughs thanks to AI, but significant ‘data gaps’ need to be filled, expert says

There’s a dearth of data about how differences in gender, ethnicity, and environment can affect the aging process.
Phys.org

Information collected by the world's largest radio telescope will be stored and processed by global data centers

When the Square Kilometer Array (SKA) Observatory goes online later this decade, it will create one of science's biggest data challenges. The SKA Observatory is a global radio telescope project built ...
Nature

Unlocking big data for biomedical research

“We’re at a transformative moment in the biomedical sciences,” says James Lu, an AI scientist at the Agency for Science, Technology and Research Bioinformatics Institute (A*STAR BII) in Singapore.
Purdue University

Short course on biomedical big data invites researchers to featured lectures

Several lectures in the third annual Big Data Training for Translational Omics Research boot camp, meeting June 15-24 on Purdue's West Lafayette campus are open to all Purdue researchers. The boot ...
Energy Digital

How Spotfire Uses Data Science & Geospatial Analytics

Michael O'Connell, Chief Analytics Officer at Spotfire explores how the company uses data science, geospatial analytics and ...
The Johns Hopkins News-Letter

The Human Side of Big Data: IDIES Symposium Highlights

Intensive Engineering and Science (IDIES) hosted its annual symposium on Thursday, Oct. 16. The symposium opened with remarks from Alex Szalay – Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Big Data and ...
insideHPC

Cray Discovers a Viable Approach to Hadoop in Big Data Science

Hadoop is certainly well known as a general framework for Big Data analytics but many have questioned whether it is suited for Scientific Big Data. We caught up with Mike Boros, Hadoop Product Manager ...
Scientific American

New DNA Search Engine Brings Order to Biology’s Big Data

The Internet has Google. Now biology has MetaGraph. Detailed today in Nature, the search engine can quickly sift through the staggering volumes of biological data housed in public repositories. “It’s ...
insideHPC

Digging Deep into Data Science and the Silicon Valley

In this special guest feature, David Richards of WANdisco pays tribute to noted computer scientist Alan Turing in terms of the rise of the Big Data industry. David is CEO of WANdisco. Since ...
The Conversation

Information collected by the world’s largest radio telescope will be stored and processed by global data centres

Falk Herwig receives funding from the National Research Council of Canada and the Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada. JJ Kavelaars receives funding from the National Research ...